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Judge quashes foreign domestic worker’s bid for change to ‘live-out’ rule in Hong Kong

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    What I find baffling is the reason for the government to introduce the live in system to protect the local domestic help market. The irony is that I am not aware of any local domestic helpers. I am sure they do exist but the numbers must be minuscule.

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    The irony is that I am not aware of any local domestic helpers. I am sure they do exist but the numbers must be minuscule.
    More than the local market, I suspect it was to "protect" the recent arrivals from China and provide them with some basic employment. No clue who well that has worked out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pin:
    What I find baffling is the reason for the government to introduce the live in system to protect the local domestic help market. The irony is that I am not aware of any local domestic helpers. I am sure they do exist but the numbers must be minuscule.
    I use a local lady part time and I know several other people that do. It's obviously not on the scale of the foreign domestic help but far from uncommon.

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    I think letting DHs seek external housing would increase housing costs for locals on the low end of the economic scale, as well. Decreasing supply, increasing demand, etc. The courts have to consider this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pin:
    What I find baffling is the reason for the government to introduce the live in system to protect the local domestic help market. The irony is that I am not aware of any local domestic helpers. I am sure they do exist but the numbers must be minuscule.
    If you've ever had any conversations with some of the private school boy, HK brats born in the 60's who are now in their late 50's, they'll tell you quite enthusiastically, that most foreign households had at least one local Amah who managed it all. They were even allowed to give them a clip behind the ears if they misbehaved, while the parents were out drinking/swanning around. That all changed when the British government with huge support from the Philippines govt who lobbied the FDH idea and the introduction of the system that we have now, circa 1973, I think it was ?

    In some ways not much has really changed, same shit, different smell.

    Had FDH been given the legal right to live out, what's the bet that cheap dorm accommodation would have doubled in price in a matter of days of that announcement ? The top 1-5 percent, poverty porn
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyhook:
    If you've ever had any conversations with some of the private school boy, HK brats born in the 60's who are now in their late 50's, they'll tell you quite enthusiastically, that most foreign households had at least one local Amah who managed it all. They were even allowed to give them a clip behind the ears if they misbehaved, while the parents were out drinking/swanning around. That all changed when the British government with huge support from the Philippines govt who lobbied the FDH idea and the introduction of the system that we have now, circa 1973, I think it was ?

    In some ways not much has really changed, same shit, different smell.

    Had FDH been given the legal right to live out, what's the bet that cheap dorm accommodation would have doubled in price in a matter of days of that announcement ? The top 1-5 percent, poverty porn
    But they did have the right to live out, until 2003, which is when the government changed the rules.