60396 At the headquarters, different kinds of complaints are stored on a computer list.
60397 The most common are examples of labor violations.
60398 There are numerous examples of women coming to Hong Kong with a domestic help contract, only to be asked by their employers to work in other places, such as factories.
60399 Cases of wage disputes, termination without reason, and sexual abuse are also not uncommon.
60400 Work visas become invalid if employment is terminated and the worker must return home.
60401 For this reason, it is difficult to turn down requests to work long hours or on holidays.
60402 Working conditions in Hong Kong households are not good.
60403 Some households go so far as to have the maid instead of the mother sleep with the baby or give the baby milk repeatedly through the night.
60404 Besides Filipinos, the numbers of Asians working as maids in Hong Kong are on the rise.
60405 A glance at the Union member's list reveals Thai, Indian, Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Nepalese and Indonesian nationalities.
60406 "Will employment of foreigners be accepted as before?" "Will we be eventually chased out by the influx of cheap female labor from the Chinese mainland?"
60407 Borongan says, "Our lives are directly connected to the 1997 reversion."
60408 There are also cases where employment has been terminated because the employer is moving overseas, or where the maid has moved with the employer to Canada.
60409 Many of the shotgun-wielding guardsmen posted in front of banks or jewelry shops in Hong Kong are Indian.
60410 Apparently there is a deep historical connection.