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End Discrimination

FADWU works to eliminate discrimination and grant equal rights to domestic workers.

All workers should be afforded the core human right to be free from discrimination and and protected under the law. Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong face extensive workplace discrimination and suffer under discriminatory policies that deprive them of basic rights.

​The accumulated impact of systemic discrimination results in severely limited labour rights and power imbalances, leaving MDWs vulnerable and unprotected by the legal system. Justice remains highly inaccessible to those who do seek it.

• Statement & Press release
• ​Worker's Voice

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Cancer

• Press Release – Migrant Domestic Workers Who Fall Seriously Ill Face Illegal Termination and Healthcare Denial(9/3/2025)
• FADWU Press Conference(9/3/2025)
• Google Drive(9/3/2025)

Job-hopping

• COVID Aggravated Exploitation Against Migrant Domestic Workers Government Ignores Unlawful Practice of Employment Agencies and Employers(16/7/2023)
• FADWU Press Conference: COVID Aggravated Exploitation(16/7/2023)
• Press Release - Constructive Dismissal is Not “Job-hopping”, FADWU Opposes the Government's Discriminatory Proposal(30/4/2023)
• Press Release - Alleged “Job-hopping” Silences Migrant Domestic Workers Facing Abuse, FADWU Calls for a Stop to Discriminatory Policies(7/8/2022)
• ADWU 記者會：詆毀外傭「跳工」，惡化剝削 (Chinese Only)(7/8/2022)
• Google Drive(20/2/2022)

COVID

• FADWU Press Conference(9/3/2025)
• 新聞稿 – 加強教育及執法 保障外傭醫療與勞工權利 (Chinese Only)(9/3/2025)
• Hong Kong Federation of Asian Domestic Workers Unions (FADWU) Statement on the Revised Code of Practice for Employment Agencies(23/5/2024)
• COVID Aggravated Exploitation Against Migrant Domestic Workers Government Ignores Unlawful Practice of Employment Agencies and Employers(16/7/2023)
• FADWU Press Conference: COVID Aggravated Exploitation(16/7/2023)
• 新聞稿 - 保護外籍家務工工作權 - 要求立法會議員停止歧視家務工 (Chinese Only)(2/2/2023)
• To: Office of The Ombudsman(24/8/2022)
• HK government fails to inform newly arrived migrant domestic workers of testing requirements, fines them $10,000 for "non-compliance"(12/7/2022)
• FADWU sent a letter to the Immigration Department of HK to immediately offer help to a homeless worker who has preliminary positive COVID.(17/2/2022)
• 外判清潔工染疫 莊臣無故扣薪 食環署缺乏監管 外判公司疫情期間剝削勞工賺大錢 (Chinese Only)(27/4/2022)
• STATEMENT: Condemn discriminatory “designated hotel” policy, demand assurances for worker’s rights and welfare(30/8/2021)
• Police officers check MDWs’ swab test results and proof of vaccinations(16/5/2021)
• FADWU’s Quick Response to the Mandatory COVID-19 Test and Vaccination(30/4/2021)
• To provide more language options for MDWs in the free COVID test(24/12/2020)
• The press conference of How the coronavirus 19 affect the domestic worker(22/3/2020)

Nepal Visa Ban

• FADWU Petition Letter to Consulate General of Nepal Hong Kong(21/12/2023)
• It is discriminatory that TVB cast a Chinese actress donned “brown face” to play a Filipino domestic worker in the TVB series, Barrack O’Karma 1968(14/4/2022)

LGBT

• Google Drive(20/12/2023)

'Fit To Work' Certificate For Filipinos

• Google Drive(20/12/2023)

Right of Adobe

• Google Drive(20/12/2023)

C189

• Google Drive(20/12/2023)

The price of justice

• The price of justice – migrant domestic workers’ experience of trying to resolve labour disputes in Hong Kong

Cancer

• 外傭患乳癌排期化療　僱主聞言深夜解僱趕出屋　協會：違反歧視條例 (Chinese Only)(22/1/2025)

Job-hopping

• SCMP | Accusing Hong Kong’s domestic workers of ‘job-hopping’ ignores their struggles(7/5/2024)
• Disciplining care labor through the labeling of “job-hopping”: an interview with FADWU(27/9/2022)

COVID

• ‘The frontline in our homes’: Covid-19’s lasting impact on Hong Kong’s migrant domestic workers(19/1/2023)
• ‘I didn’t know’: Hong Kong’s complex Covid-19 rules see domestic workers fined HK$10,000 for missing arrival tests(6/11/2022)
• Migrant Women in Hong Kong SAR, China Empower Other Migrants Through Fun and Interactive Activities(25/10/2022)
• 新冠疫情：香港確診外傭遭遇歧視 「我們也只是受害者」(Chinese Only)(17/3/2022)

Legal struggles

• Operation Santa Claus: group helping Hong Kong’s migrant workers speak up about injustice looks beyond borders(9/11/2022)

TVB brownface incident

• Maricho, a migrant domestic worker from Philippine and a union member from Pludw Hk shared her thoughts on the TVB show Barrack O’Karma 1968(20/4/2022)
• It is discriminatory that TVB cast a Chinese actress donned “brown face” to play a Filipino domestic worker in the TVB series, Barrack O’Karma 1968(14/4/2022)

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