At present, there are about 350,000 foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong. However, the local policy does not regulate foreign domestic helpers and intermediary companies enough, and the quality of foreign domestic helpers who lead the government is uneven.
The DAB completed its foreign visit to ASEAN earlier, and shared it on social platforms today (28th), saying that during its visit to Indonesia, it specially visited a local Indian maid training center and communicated with the local labor union.
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The DAB stated that foreign domestic helpers play an important supporting role in Hong Kong families, especially to release labor force for dual-career housewives. However, since the outbreak of the epidemic, there has been a "foreign domestic helper shortage", which has caused many families to lose their budgets in their daily living arrangements.
The DAB pointed out that through this exchange, it has learned about the questions of local helpers about Hong Kong's foreign domestic helper policy, and at the same time, it has reflected to them the concerns of general Hong Kong employers about foreign domestic helpers.
In fact, the DAB issued an opinion paper on the foreign domestic helper policy on the 30th of last month, in which it put forward 13 proposals for the government, foreign domestic helper agencies, employers and foreign domestic helpers, such as adding "early termination compensation fees", establishing " It is hoped that the Government will consider including it in the "Policy Address" in October.
The DAB will organize another delegation to the B20 summit in Indonesia in November to urge the Hong Kong government to allocate more resources to develop ASEAN relations in the Northern Metropolis. Advocate for professionals to buy a property to be exempted from the spicy tax, and urged Li Jiachao to go to the building for 4 years during his tenure. The DAB ASEAN foreign delegation returned to Hong Kong to wear Indonesian clothes. See reporters: foreign visits increase local confidence in Hong Kong Introducing companies to list in Hong Kong