Immigration Department launches operation

The Immigration Department launched a four-day anti-illegal employment operation across Hong Kong last Saturday, resulting in the arrest of 24 individuals, including six company executives or contract employers involved.
The Immigration Department stated that during the operation, it discovered that some foreign domestic workers were assigned to work in unlicensed guesthouses operated by their employers. Others, despite never performing the domestic work specified in their employment contracts, colluded with their employers to forge documents to apply for domestic worker visas and then continued to work in restaurants.
The operation raided 66 locations and arrested 18 suspected illegal workers, most of whom were Indonesian and Filipino nationals. The majority were arrested in restaurants and bars. They were introduced by friends or fellow townspeople to work in non-contract locations as dishwashers, cooks, and waiters, earning wages ranging from a few tens of dollars per hour to $200 to $500 per day.