Minorities. Employment｜It is extremely difficult to complain about workplace discrimination

The Equal Opportunities Commission (Equal Opportunities) commissioned the Youth Research and Practice Center of Hong Kong Baptist University in June last year to conduct research on the education and employment of ethnic minority youths in Hong Kong.

The research report shows that Chinese literacy is the main obstacle to the employment of ethnic minorities.

Minority youths of different backgrounds have different levels of Chinese proficiency. At present, most of the other Chinese courses in the market are regarded as not practical enough.

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Chinese ability not only becomes a stumbling block to job hunting, but also indirectly hinders rights protection.

The program officer of the Catholic Labor and Herdsmen Center, Tsang Jiajun, has always been concerned about the rights and interests of ethnic minorities and is committed to helping them solve their difficulties. It is difficult for the mother tongue of one's own country to absorb and digest the Chinese and English information provided by the Labour Department.

Minorities not only have difficulty dealing with labor rights issues, but their discrimination in the workplace is often ambiguous and difficult to be truly proven.

(Information Picture/Photo by Mo Jiawen)

Even if the "Employment Ordinance" applies to people regardless of race, ethnic minority workers know little about vacations, work-related injuries and severance payments, and they do not know the channels for proactively obtaining information. Once they encounter labor disputes or rights issues, I don't know how to make a complaint and fail to take full advantage of legal protection.

Without the help of social workers or government agency staff, they usually do not have the confidence to deal with complicated and lengthy legal procedures, and they will not choose to defend their rights for their own complaints.

Minorities not only have difficulty dealing with labor rights issues, but the discrimination they face in the workplace is often ambiguous and difficult to be truly proven or defined as "racial discrimination."

Zhang Fengmei, director-general of Rongle Club, pointed out to "Hong Kong 01" that to prove that a case involves racial discrimination, the threshold is quite high.

For details, please read the 294th "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly Newsletter (December 6, 2021) "

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