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.
Lee Edmond you know not only a pilipino people doing illegal job here in hongkong.alot of pakistan.indian. Bangladesh.indonisian.and even a chinese people from mainlad china doing a illegal job.dont single out the pilipino people intiendes…
yes kabayan tama, idagdag u na rin ung scarborough shoal katulad din nyang chinese umagaw nun
you’re right
Elfiyah Vancirede I don’t need to see dictionary I know the difference of rich and reach and I don’t need to explain how it happen .
It’s typo error I know how to read and write English better read and do more research before you open your mouth Lee edmond
Big check beautiful malandag
Randell Jay Orpiano Nuestro very well said kabayan????????????????????
Yes Lee Edmond its not hongkong money..i agree with u Jacqueline rotoni..
Lee Edmond, i do respect everyones point of view but i dont accept yours. You said Filipino likes illegal jobs, how about you and your fellow chinesse aren’t you or them going legal? Drugs and drug lords who came to Philippines are Chinesse your destroying peoples life and future. Now you think its legal? Chinesse national who do businesses in Philippines and paying low wages to their worker, because they are greedy, do you think thats legal? and those employers who are taking their helpers to China and force to work them there is that legal, and those employers who let there helpers work until 12 to 1am midnight and woke up at 4 or 5 am, do you think thats legal? If you have a helperbyou know whats writen in the contract. the question is, do you follow the rules? if not your doing illegal also.
I think your a racist, you generalize to much. We Filipino are not perfect and so us you.
Lee Edmond don’t generalize Filipino what if I will say all chinese are ignorance of the law!
Isha Rizwan rich po
It is good to help our extended families back home in philippines but not to the extend that you are going to compromise your work status ,calculate your earnings and do not go beyond your monthly salary,
If employer’s have a lighter punishment about employing or hiring employee (that is not legal) where is the fair trial that hk gov’t has?
Ellah mae. Exactly, no illegal workers if no one hired them illegally. That’s the logic. Well i guess hk government should not just fine the employer who hired them but give them same sentence for the sake of fair judgement. Hk government is absolutely fair they are not siding their people they are just when it comes of rendering justice because they uphold human rights in this country.so we are looking forward of the outcome of this case…
Furthermore if one choose to work illegally that thier own choices, anyone can do that kind of mistakes, some people are not satisfied for what they can earn in legal way that’s why they choose to take illegal job, it’s not a matter of not having any choices, but it’s a poor judgement on things. Mind most of drug traffickers run by Chinese people came from china and taiwan but we filipinos don’t generalized that all Chinese people are in drug trades in Philippines, because regardless where we came from we are human beings who made choices, and whatever wrong choices had consequences.how many filipino workers in hk and how many of us here takel illegal job?
Wilson Yao no sir no filipinos go hungry in Philippines, many filipinos stayed in Philippines and were able to survived because they are industrious.i. want you to know that there’s many means to live in our own country but some of us choose to work abroad that doesn’t mean our family will go hungry if we don’t work abroad, you have to consider our population in Philippines how many of us working abroad and how many of us stayed in Philippines dispite of Philippines economic conditions to get clear view as to wether filipino family only relied on the money they get from members who works abroad. I want you to know that working abroad is the toughest decision one can do yet its not the only means to survive in Philippines. I hope you come and tour around Philippines not just in manila and see for yourself how typical filipino live thier life. Next time do make a research before you judge and generalized filipino people.
Lee Edmond its not hongkong money fyi.
Isha Rizwan Mb kalo mau comment pake bahasa inggris mendingan lihat kamus dulu supaya orang2 tidak salah arti.
Isha Rizwan Rich
Ohhh the employer?… Of course none! They’re HK people, remember?! Put all the blame to us, Filipinas… LOL