RESIGNATION
Clause 12 (c) is explicit in its allowances for early termination on the part of the employee (without notice or payment in lieu of notice) and certainly recognizes that ill-treatment is a possibility - e.g. "He/she reasonably fears physical danger by violence
or "he/she is subjected to ill-treatment..."
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(Appendix A - Page 1 para: 5 to end page.)
Yet the two-week rule as administered by the Hong Kong authorities effectively presents foreign domestic helpers with two choices should they consider resigning.
(1) to remain in employment in what may be unacceptable
conditions
(2)
to resign losing all benefits and almost certainly be repatriated.
TERMINATION BY THE EMPLOYER
Terminated workers, who consider their dismissal to be unfair or unreasonable, also have two choices ones which
more palatable than those open to helpers who
consider resignation:
(1) to stay and fight for their rights.
(2)
to return home to their deprived families with little hope of getting another job.
If they fight, their cases will take many months to resolve; months during which they are not permitted to work to earn money for their own shelter or food and worse: months when their families at home often their own children will suffer deprivation because they will no longer be able to send them money.
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