By The SUN
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| The Filipina workers were fetched from the employer's house with help from police |
Four Filipino domestic workers who reported being abandoned
by their socialite employer in her house in a posh residential area in Stanley have
been “rescued” Friday by officers from the Consulate and the Overseas Workers
Welfare Administration.
The four workers who used to be in the employ of Chua
Eh Fong resigned en masse recently, claiming to have been overworked.
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But after three of them paid the employer a month’s salary in lieu of wages, Chua reportedly left her house in Regalia Bay without a word and moved to another one nearby.
Afraid that they would be accused of doing something
illegal if they left without permission from the employer, the workers asked
help from the Consulate.
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| Tamayao talking with the police escorts |
In a post Saturday, OWWA welfare officer Virsie Tamayao said the evacuation of the workers from the employer’s house was made in coordination with the Stanley Police Station.
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“The Police cooperated and supported the decision to
get the workers out from their workplace on the basis of our consultation with
the officer of the Hong Kong Labour Department who's been likewise monitoring
the case,” said Tamayao.
She was assisted in the operation by Arnel de Luna of
the Consulate’s assistance to nationals section.
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| Chua has falsely accused another Filipina helper of theft |
Chua was in the news recently after her claim that another former Filipina helper, Liverty Narcelles, had stolen her $100,000 ring was dismissed by an Eastern Court magistrate for lack of evidence.
Narcelles, who was imprisoned for four months for a
crime she did not commit, is still pursuing a labour claim against Chua with
help from the Mission for Migrant Workers.
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In the last hearing of the Narcelles’ claim at the
Labour Tribunal in April this year, Chua resisted paying a month’s salary in
lieu of notice, saying she had been provoked into firing the helper.
Before this, the hearing was postponed because Chua made the outrageous claim that it was not her former employer who was in court to pursue the claim.
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| Narcelles was jailed for 4 months for a crime she did not commit |
With the parties failing to reach a settlement, the
tribunal officer set the next hearing to Dec 1.
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In the meantime, Immigration has reportedly rejected Narcelles’ application to have a new employment contract processed while waiting for her labour claim to be settled.
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