Foreign Workers Take Jobs｜Cha Chaan Teng Waitress Dismissed, Says Company Has Already Brought in Three Batches of Foreign Workers and Policy Address’s New Restrictions Will Not Help
外勞搶工｜茶餐廳侍應剛被炒 控訴公司已入三批外勞 指施政報告新限制無助解困
The Policy Address did not halt the importation of foreign workers, raising only slightly the thresholds for importing waiters and junior chefs. A local waitress who had worked at a chain cha chaan teng for more than two years said the company had already brought in three batches of foreign workers. She recently received a termination notice and will work until Sunday (the 21st), meaning she will have to leave the job in just a few days. She said she was a “victim” of the measures relaxing the importation of foreign workers: “But the Government still isn’t changing anything. If foreign workers weren’t coming in today, we would still be very happy doing our jobs.”
施政報告未有叫停外勞，只對輸入侍應和初級廚師的門檻作小許提高，但「遠水不能救近火」，有本地侍應，在連鎖茶餐廳工作了逾兩年，公司已入了三批外勞，她早前已接到大信封，工作至周日（21日），即數日後，她就要「執包袱」。她表示，自己是放寬輸入外勞措施下的「受害者。」，「但係政府都唔改變。如果今時今日外勞唔嚟，我哋都做得好開心㗎。」