‘Limited food, no wages’: domestic workers struggle amid quarantine in Hong Kong

When Gloria – not her real name – returned to Hong Kong from the Philippines late last month, she had to do a mandatory quarantine imposed by the government to combat the coronavirus pandemic. While her employer put her in a hotel, those 14 days were all but easy.“When my boss told me about doing the quarantine in a hotel, I asked her who would pay the expenses. She said she would. But then she told me to bring some biscuits and noodles,” says Gloria, who was under lockdown in the Philippines…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3089837/limited-food-no-wages-domestic-workers-struggle-amid-quarantine