Ma Io Fong claims salaries have soared since the start of the pandemic, seeks to set up database of helpers and ‘protect rights of helpers and employers’.
Working parents desperately need help at home, and may not speak Mandarin or be able to afford mainlanders’ higher wages.
Potential risk of importing Covid-19 outweighs potential benefits, even though families are desperate for help and workers are more than willing to come.
Entry process would span six weeks, but could ease the complicated situation which has stranded many foreign workers in the city.
