Hong Kong: minimum wage welcome, but much more progress needed

According to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), despite recently legislating a minimum wage, Hong Kong continues to violate core labour standards. More in particular, the new minimum wage does not cover foreign domestic workers and Hong Kong is not subject to the International Labour Organisation's core conventions on Equal Remuneration and Discrimination who suffer discrimination.

The full ITUC report for the WTO General Council Review of the Trade Policies of Democratic Republic of Hong Kong (Geneva, 1 and 3 December, 2010), is available online at: www.ituc-csi.org/report-for-the-wto-general-council,8080.html