Given the difficulties in booking designated quarantine hotels for helpers, Law said employers should consider terminating contracts with existing helpers after new ones have arrived in Hong Kong. "The Philippines and Indonesia have been top origins for imported cases in Hong Kong in the past year," he said. At the moment, Silka Tsuen Wan hotel is providing 400 quarantine rooms for helpers at HK$800 a night. But Hong Kong Employment Agencies Association chairman Cheung Kit-man said the number of domestic helpers waiting to come to the SAR has not decreased. He added that the salaries of domestic helpers have reached HK$6,000, and the slight increase in the number of quarantine rooms does not help to lower salary levels.

Source: The Standard November 14, 2021 19:12 UTC