Falsely accused employers are sitting ducks

In reply to E.Q. Villanueva's letter (South China Morning Post, March 25), I fail to see how a view could be formed that most Legco representatives may be worried about being seen to support foreign domestics at the expense of local employers. In fact from my observation the reverse is true.

It seems to be extremely fashionable for Legco members to fight for the rights of foreign domestics, Lee Cheuk-yan, Elizabeth Wong, Christine Loh, Martin Lee to name but a few, who either have their own self-serving motives for furthering the foreign domestics' causes or have extremely blinkered vision.

Malpractices by foreign domestics are widespread.

The fact that over 150,000 are still here could be an indication of poor law enforcement, as the figure does not differentiate between the genuine foreign domestics and the ones who engage in illegal work under the guise of foreign domestics.

Employers who are victims of false accusations by foreign domestics are not just 'left in the lurch' and the 'down-side' is not 'limited to the loss of a single air-fare'. The stress and the mental anguish, the time and money wasted can be quite devastating to aggrieved employers.

Employers in these cases are like sitting ducks waiting for their ex-helpers to take a shot at them at the helpers' convenience.

Legal aid is not available to employers, which means that they have to incur expensive legal fees in order to defend false allegations. The Labour Department has no power to prevent helpers from pursuing their claims in the Labour Tribunal, even when it is obvious that the claims are frivolous.