A recent job advertisement posted on a recruitment website by Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary has drawn a lot of comments from the public.
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po advertised for a domestic servant for his official residence on Shouson Hill Road on Hong Kong Island, offering a monthly salary of HK$17,080 (US$2,176), a 6.3% increment compared with the same post he publicly advertised at the beginning of the year, the Apple Daily reported.
He is offering a 24-month contract and the successful candidate could get a gratuity equal to 10% of the total basic salary after finishing the contract. Other fringe benefits include rest days, statutory holidays, annual leave, maternity leave or paternity leave and a sickness allowance.
The candidate, who must be a Hong Kong permanent resident, needs to have experience in domestic services such as cleaning, tidying-up, laundry and ironing work and serving guests in clubs, hotels or restaurants.
He or she has to be able to cook, speak fluent Cantonese, simple English and Putonghua and to read and write Chinese and simple English. The same position was offered early this year, but for only HK$16,065 a month, the Apple Daily reported.
In Hong Kong, an average hourly salary for a local domestic worker is about HK$110. For working six hours a day, 20 days a month, they can earn HK$13,200 a month, news website HK01.com reported.
Meanwhile, the standard monthly salary for a foreign domestic worker in Hong Kong is set at HK$4,410 per month with only one rest day per week.
Wooow akala ko pwedi tayo mkatanggap ng ganon kalaki sahod ,need pala permanent resident Ka dito
Kalahi nya ang kunin nya kung ganap naman nya e marunong magsalita at magsulat din ng Chinese.
Hk resident lng hinahanap nya,kung sa mga katulad nating mga.foreign helper malaki ang offer nya.pero kubg residente hinahanap nya maliit lng na pasahod yan.yung tagaluto nga ni ammo ko noong kapapanganak nya 12k ngluluto at ngpapaligo lng ng bata gnagawa nya
17k for permanent resident? tas dami reqs…while my Resident aunt is earning 30k up na job. Its not really impressive, cgro sating mga foreign dh oo. Pero kng resident ako, nungka kong kknin ang work. just saying ✌✌✌
the article refers to local domestic helpers po or the ones with permanent hk resident card dun sa 6hrs a day na working condition ????
Baka di kna patulugin nyan hehhe
Anung 6hrs a day kajan!!!?dreaming..!!
Why employer was not prosecuted for employing an illegal immigrant and known overstayer
Mag aral ka muna magbasa ng chinise character at magsalita ng mandarin at Cantonese, spat good cook ka pa, Kung ganyan ang qualification nya at mayrong ganyang ability ng pilipino bakit pa cla aaply sa kanya e mag call center agent kanalang mas malaki sahud makikita mo pa arawarw pamilya sa pinas, Kung hrm graduate knaman at good cook ka di sa Mga prestigious restauranor hotel sa pinas ka nlang dhil mas malaki pa sa $17 k sasahudin mo may respeto pa ang mga tao sayo slang racial discrimination tulad ng nararanasan by maraming katulong dto, cguro wla pa nmang tangang pilipino na gugustuhin ang offer in sir ano?
must have permanent hk card…
surely , Mr.Financial Secretary is willingly to pay above the minimum wage for a helper but ofcourse , the employee should also meet his high standard in doing the house hold chores.
LynNe Provendido Pilapil haha un lang
Patay pod k s work…????????????
Yeah sure as long as the foreign domestic helper can read and write Chinese characters, able to speak putongwa, mandarin, English and a good cook
He is looking for a house keeper rather than a ‘helper’. Wealthy upper-class families in the UK still employ someone to basically do everything. If a man then a butler. Probably for that salery one would need to work hard and there would be high expectations of duty .
Wow,, soo lucky to become a servant of him because of that salary he offered…sarap cgoro mka tanggap ganyan ka laki hehe
Besides of local domestic servant, He wanted to hire a foreign domestic servant too?