Christian Zheng Sheng College saga: staff seek help from Hong Kong court for unpaid wages
- Three former employees and three current ones ask Labour Tribunal to help resolve unpaid salaries amid parent organisation’s fraud scandal
Former and current employees of Christian Zheng Sheng College, a school for rehabilitating drug addicts, have sought help from Hong Kong’s court for labour disputes to help them claim unpaid wages amid police allegations of fraud against directors of the charity that operates the institution.
Dennis Yeung King-yin, one of six people who submitted documents to the Labour Tribunal in Jordan on Wednesday, said he hoped the school and its parent organisation, Christian Zheng Sheng Association, could resolve the dispute over unpaid salaries “as soon as possible”.
Christian Zheng Sheng College was established at Ha Keng on Lantau Island in 1985 to help teenagers struggling with drug addiction or who were on probation orders.
The Post earlier reported that the three fugitives – college principal Alman Chan Siu-cheuk, 63, founder Jacob Lam Hay-sing, 69, and Chan Yau-chi, 62 – had left Hong Kong, as communications between the association’s new board of directors and security officials escalated into mutual recriminations in recent weeks.