Although Hong Kong’s domestic workers are entitled to maternity rights, the reality they face is not quite straightforward. Photo: Mark Angeles Although Hong Kong’s domestic workers are entitled to maternity rights, the reality they face is not quite straightforward. Photo: Mark Angeles
Although Hong Kong’s domestic workers are entitled to maternity rights, the reality they face is not quite straightforward. Photo: Mark Angeles
Raquel Carvalho
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Opinion

Raquel Carvalho

How can Hong Kong prevent domestic workers and their babies from going homeless after maternity leave increase?

  • While the extension is good news for the city’s working mothers, it has raised fears that migrant domestic workers may be left in a more vulnerable situation
  • Experts say Hong Kong needs to roll out practical solutions for employers and raise awareness for these workers’ maternity rights

Raquel Carvalho
Raquel Carvalho

Updated: 6:00am, 18 Dec, 2020

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Although Hong Kong’s domestic workers are entitled to maternity rights, the reality they face is not quite straightforward. Photo: Mark Angeles Although Hong Kong’s domestic workers are entitled to maternity rights, the reality they face is not quite straightforward. Photo: Mark Angeles
Although Hong Kong’s domestic workers are entitled to maternity rights, the reality they face is not quite straightforward. Photo: Mark Angeles
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Raquel Carvalho

Raquel Carvalho

Raquel Carvalho is Asia Correspondent for the Post. She joined the newspaper in 2014. Most of her investigative and in-depth stories have been focused on human rights, cross-border security, illicit trade and corruption. She was previously the chief reporter at a Portuguese daily newspaper in Macau, where she moved to from Europe in 2008.