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| One of the 2 arrested FDHs is led away by immigration agents |
Officers from the Immigration Department and the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) have arrested two suspected illegal workers, both of them foreign domestic helpers.
According to a statement issued on the government
website yesterday, the two women, aged 44 and 47, were caught selling food on a
pedestrian footbridge on Sunday, in the vicinity of Mong Kok Road, where the
Labour Department’s headquarters is located.
The two were arrested on suspicion of breaching
their condition of stay by engaging in illegal hawking and selling food on the
footbridge.
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| Basahin ang detalye! |
FEHD officers seized some hawker equipment and food
in the vicinity that were apparently abandoned.
Immigration warned that FDHs should only perform
domestic work in their employer’s address as stated in the employment contract.
They cannot carry out any non-domestic work, or take up, or join or establish
any business other than the contracted domestic work, whether paid or unpaid,
in Hong Kong.
Anyone found guilty of violating a condition of stay
faces a maximum fine of $50,000 and up to two years' imprisonment. Aiders and
abettors are also liable to prosecution and penalties.
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