A 39-year-old Filipino maid was fined HK$800 (US$103) on Friday after she was convicted in a Hong Kong court on a theft charge for eating her employer’s meatballs worth HK$100.
In January, Mildred Nilo Ladia was charged with two counts of theft. She was accused of stealing an agnès b brand handbag and two leather slippers on January 11 last year. Ladia was also accused of eating meatballs between March 28 and April 10 in her employer’s Repulse Bay home.
In May last year, barrister Gekko Lan Suet-ying, the maid’s then employer, had deducted HK$100 from Ladia’s statutory salary of HK$4,210.
On Friday, the prosecutor dropped the first charge as Lan, who was in hospital, failed to be appear as a witness in the Eastern Magistrates’ Court, Apple Daily reported. Ladia, who came Hong Kong in August 2015 and had previously worked in Singapore, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, admitted the second charge, but pleaded in exchange for a lighter penalty.
The magistrate fined the maid HK$800, instead of sending her to jail, because Ladia has to financially support her family in the Philippines, Sing Tao Daily reported.
your right ate, mga walang kwentang bagay pinalalaki pa! damn employer!
What???? Just because she ate meatballs she has to fine $800!? That’s ridiculous!!!!
just eating meatballs ask uour employer I will make her 2 kg of meatballs.is she giving you your food allowance?you also have to complain about it.you ate meatbals because theres no other food but meatballs.OMG
what a shameful and inconsiderate act of an employer to their helper. how sad to have these kind of employer.
��� this is rediculous … Just a meat balls ����
Again, this kind of case. Just wow, don’t you all know that out there, so many helpers are working with empty stomach bcuz their employers just don’t care about what their helpers eat. They don’t provide food, they don’t give food allowance either, but they want their helpers to work for like almost 24/7. Some of my friends, they even need to buy food (esp. rice) using their own salaries, and their employers, shamelessly also eat that food without questioning where it comes from. Where is the justice in this case? Don’t you know that we have the lowest wage, with the longest working hours ? This kinda job is superduper tiring with so little money. And you still don’t give all what we supposed to get, we all, humans, need food, it’s essential. Also it’s not true that all helpers are low educated ppl, I know so many cool friends who have degrees, who are university graduates, but we couldn’t find other jobs bcuz of our visa (another sensitive issue). Hopefully HK government would help n protect DWs from greedy agencies also harsh n cruel employers.
Seriously �
There’s a food allowance
This kind of employer must be blacklist!!
Dapat sa amo na yan sampalin ng frozen na meatballs ng matauhan,��
Ha?gush..meatballs?insane ang amo na ito..banned this employer to hire Dh again..
Omg.. omg.. omg.. I hope the food was well provided, she could have been hungry..
OMG!dapat mandatory ng ibigay ang food allowance para makabili sya ng masmarunong meatballs…
Hayop na amo yan baka naman ginugutom si ate…ng dahil sa pagkain idedemanda nya katulong nya npaka hayop eh���
That employer can’t afford to give proper food to the helper.i hope this employer will be banned .
Wow…. whoever that employer please tell her..i donate meatballs for her…….theyre so bad kind employer….they accused the maid of stealing their meatballs…..do they gave proper food to the helper?……..������
Omg this is nonsense ! I cannot believe this happened here in Hong Kong…
OMG! Seriously???
This is ridiculous and insane!��
I can’t say anything more but these kind of inconsiderate employers should be banned from hiring domestic helpers!
Omg