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Review of minimum pay for foreign maids

The minimum pay for foreign domestic helpers, presently HK$3,400 a month, is being reviewed.

The Labour Department will take into account the market situation, prices and changes in incomes.

Foreign domestic helpers - of which there are more than 236,000, 97 per cent from the Philippines and Indonesia - are the only workers in the city for whom minimum pay has been set. The most recent increase, of HK$80 a month, was in May.

Permanent Secretary for Economic Development and Labour Paul Tang Kwok-wai has said the government is studying a minimum wage for handicapped workers.

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