Household Service Workers
Filipino Domestic Helpers
HK Immigration Reject Visa Applications of Over 1,800 “Job Hopping” Domestic Helpers
Hong Kong's Immigration Department since 2013 has denied visa applications of 1,817 foreign domestic helpers who have been "job-hopping".
According to Labour and Welfare Secretary Dr Law Chi-kwong, the Department has implemented a…
Filipina Helper Loses Job, Fined For Stealing From Employer
A Filipina domestic worker who worked in Hong Kong for just three months now faces immediate deportation, fined and losing her job in the process -- all because she stole cash from her employer, a report by The SUN said.
Joyce Atonen,…
HK Domestic Worker Cleans High-rise Building Window
Despite warnings from labor exporting governments and Hong Kong government’s ban on cleaning of outside windows on high-rise buildings, there are still those who risk their lives and limbs to fulfill their household duties.
A photo…
Cancer-stricken Filipina Driven Out in the Middle of the Night By Employer Dies
A Filipino domestic worker who was reportedly driven out by her employer last year while still undergoing cancer treatment has died in her hometown.
Joan, a 41-year-old single mother, succumbed to cervical cancer on August 25 in Guimba,…
Newly-wed Filipina Domestic Helper from Antique Dies in Apparent Suicide in HK
A Filipina domestic worker who reportedly hanged herself inside her employer's apartment in northern Hong Kong on August 1 has been taken off life support system after being declared clinically dead, sources from the Philippine Consulate in…
Beware of ‘Friends’ Who Value You Because of Money
As if life abroad is not hard enough, overseas Filipino workers can experience additional misery when they meet 'fair weather friends' who ruin their future plans and even get them in trouble.
Take Christine, a domestic worker in Hong…
Filipina Bleeds to Death Over Suspected Abortion Try in Dubai
An investigation by Dubai Police is underway about a Filipina domestic worker who bled to her death on July 29, a report from Gulf News said.
Angel Pauya Trasadas, 33, died after bleeding profusely while working in one of the flats in…
POLO: 30-Kg Luggage Allowance For HK Domestic Workers Should Be Enforced
Employment agencies have been reminded that Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong flying back to the Philippines should be granted at least 30 kilograms of luggage allowance.
The Philippine Overseas Labor Office made the reminder after…
Filipina Domestic Worker Dies of Stroke in Hong Kong
A Filipino domestic worker has died in a Hong Kong hospital on July 23, two days after an appeal was sent out to get her family in the Philippines to be by her bedside went viral, The SUN reported.
Bernadett Manalo Natividad, 37, who…
Filipino DH in HK Guilty of Taking Upskirt Video To Appeal Court Verdict
A Filipino domestic worker found guilty in a Hong Kong court in January of taking upskirt video of a local woman one-and-a-half years ago has filed for appeal at the High Court.
Nelson San Juan, 29, appeared on his own on June 15 before…
