A woman collects cardboard in Mong Kok on January 10. For many low-wage earners, life was already difficult before Covid-19 exacerbated the situation. Photo: Jelly Tse
A woman collects cardboard in Mong Kok on January 10. For many low-wage earners, life was already difficult before Covid-19 exacerbated the situation. Photo: Jelly Tse
Kalina Tsang
Opinion

Opinion

Kalina Tsang

Hong Kong’s new minimum wage still fails the working poor as wealth gap widens

  • At HK$40 per hour, it’s below the welfare payment needed for a family of two to survive, and demotivating when the city’s richest earn over 47 times more
  • The minimum wage must catch up with inflation and do better than welfare payments in allowing workers to support a dependent

Kalina Tsang
Kalina Tsang

Updated: 8:15am, 15 Feb, 2023

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A woman collects cardboard in Mong Kok on January 10. For many low-wage earners, life was already difficult before Covid-19 exacerbated the situation. Photo: Jelly Tse
A woman collects cardboard in Mong Kok on January 10. For many low-wage earners, life was already difficult before Covid-19 exacerbated the situation. Photo: Jelly Tse
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