Ex-employer ordered to pay HK$251k to family of late domestic worker fired over cancer diagnosis, NGO says process ‘unbearable’

A Hong Kong court has ordered the former employer of a late Filipina domestic worker who was fired after a cervical cancer diagnosis in 2019 to pay more than HK$251,000 to the deceased’s family. An NGO has welcomed the ruling but said such ordeals were “unbearably long and painful.” The verdict, made on Friday, came […]

By Hillary Leung