Three women from the Philippines were sentenced by the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts to jail sentences ranging from six weeks to 14 months last week for illegally working in Hong Kong.
On April 24, the three women, aged 34 to 52, were arrested by Immigration Department officers during an anti-illegal worker operation in a restaurant in Central on Hong Kong Island. One of those arrested claimed she had applied for refugee status, while the other two were foreign domestic workers, according to a statement on a government website.
A local person was also arrested for allegedly hiring the three Filipinos, who were charged on April 26 with taking employment unlawfully in Hong Kong. The refugee claimant, who should have been deported, was accused of staying in the city illegally, while the two domestic workers were charged with breaching the conditions of their stay by taking up unapproved employment in Hong Kong.
They pleaded guilty to the charges in the court and were jailed from six weeks to 14 months.
According to Hong Kong law, illegal immigrants or people who are the subject of a removal order or a deportation order are prohibited from taking any employment, whether paid or unpaid, or establishing or joining in any business.
Offenders are liable upon conviction to a maximum fine of HK$50,000 (US$6,369) and up to three years’ imprisonment.
Foreign domestic workers who take up unapproved employment in Hong Kong can be jailed for up to two years and fined HK$50,000. The maximum penalty for a person convicted of employing illegal workers in the city is imprisonment for three years and a fine of HK$350,000.
I am correct tha im not agree to to be with my employer in china just to his family better stay in philippines than.to work illegally so bad …
If local people of hongkong know how to follow the governtment Law….this should not be happen? How come they hire someone to work with them without proper documents? Hmmmmm simple logic they taken advantage to pay a lowest wage. I see the problem is in local residents who hired them. They must learned to follow the Law of your own country. As easy as that….!!!
Jan andersen, you have right question. How about the employer?
Wilson Yao If you guys have money what need to come back to Hk for being a helper? I think HK GOVT MUST STRICT WITH DEPORTATION ILLEGAL WORKERS
Isha Rizwan what do you mean reach? can not be reach? HK GOVT SHOULD BE STRICT WITH REFUGEES staying in Hk, they are just wasting HK GOVT MONEY TO FEED THEM
Lee Edmond Sorry even she is deported after few weeks she can come and work again in Hong Kong this kind of cases have already happened for maThus ny times . Because if you are willing to spend money in the Philippines nothing is impossible to do including changing your name your date of birth…. so this enables she to come to Hong Kong again in a few weeks .This is 100% true and have happened for many times.
Wilson Yao i understand to support your family it’s very important, but it’s not hong kong problem if a person have a family of 20
There are many Filipinos working illegally all over world and why not no well paid jobs back home.
well done, Judge Chu, teach the dirty mainlander a lesson 🙂
What was the sentence for the employer?
how can.you say feeding of thousands?we are not pig that could labor 10 to 16 sibblings at a time…and we will not be starving into death incase we lost our job her..hongkong..
Really wasting?they are using refugees to get money and mostly hired them for lower salary Chinese people are getting reach because of them
wala naman pong problema sa nonstop na pakikipag usap habang namimili as long as na babayaran mu yung mga binili mo ..????????????
Some employers too ask their maid to work.in their other family house..so no choice to the maid than to comply or else they are treatened to be terminated..
Wilson Yao yeah, and now this was her consequence for doing illegal job in jail and be deported
No choice because One Person Earning Money In Hong Kong to financially support Thousands Of Extended Family Members in the Philippines So even they know the jobs are illegal for them they still MUST take the jobs otherwise all their extended family members in the Philippines will suffer from hunger understand ?
You must know your status here and must not work illegally
refugees must be deport ASAP wasting HK govt money.
A local chinese person…
good job sa mga mahilig magwork sa ibang bansa na illigaly and breaching of contract..understand properly what was stated in ur contract as what are ur jobs