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will be taken only after a period of six months of warning through publicity, thus providing those using the service of illegal part-time FDHs with sufficient time to have them replaced by local part-time helpers. In this connection Labour Department has advised that there is no shortage of local people willing to work as part-time domestic helpers.
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(v) Regular Increase of Wages
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The wage level for FDHs will continue to be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that it does not fall out of line with wages paid to local full-time domestic helpers. Το provide a firm base for such reviews, it will be necessary to conduct a comprehensive statistical survey (preferably by the Census and Statistics Department) on the present employment situation with regard to local domestic helpers. Increases in the wage level for FDHs, if justified by the results of the regular reviews, will be announced on an annual basis.
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The standard FDH employment contract will need to be revised to provide for wage rates to be increased in the second year of a contract to a rate not less than the then prevailing rate for new contracts. Existing contracts will thus be allowed to run their course until replaced by the new contracts with the revised provision.
Proposed changes of conditions of employment
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(a)
(b)
(c)
The proposals as now revised are :
to allow a FDH to submit a new and valid contract before she leaves for her country of origin if her former contract has run its
course;
not to allow a FDH to submit a new and valid contract before she leaves for her country of origin if her former contract has been broken;
to impose a new condition of stay to have the effect that if a FDH's contract is terminated the FDH will be allowed to stay in Hong Kong for the remainder of her current six months condition of stay or for two weeks after the termination of her contract, whichever is the shorter. Director of Immigration could adjust requirement to
suit
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this
the particular
circumstances of a particular case;