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Fifth Covid Wave hits Hong Kong’s Domestic Workers

Urgent need of meaningful support as coronavirus continues to grind away

Sep 06, 2022
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By: Malick Gai

Hong Kong's migrant domestic workers, too often hidden victims of nebulous work contracts that allow abuse and exploitation to go on behind closed doors, have been further isolated by the fifth Covid-19 wave, according to worker rights groups.

In some cases, the rights groups found, when helpers tested for the virus, employers simply kicked…

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