A domestic helper, the victim of human trafficking, at St John’s Cathedral in Central in 2017. Photo: David Wong
Opinion
Opinion
David Bishop
Why is Hong Kong rewarding employment agencies when the industry is complicit in human trafficking?
The government has endorsed a subsidy scheme for employment agencies hit by Covid-19. Yet the scheme does not acknowledge that a large subset of the industry has been criticised for facilitating labour trafficking through debt-based coercion