ASKING: Can an employer ask and order his domestic worker (PRT) to work with other people or do work that is not of a household nature?
ANSWER: Should not. According to the Immigration Regulations, an employer may not order his domestic worker to work with a person other than those specified in the visa or ask him to do other than domestic work.
A domestic worker is only allowed to work in a home where the address is written in the work contract, and only for the employer whose name is written on the work contract. On this basis, domestic workers should not be ordered to work in several houses at once. Moreover, working to maintain shops or stalls.
Employers who violate the immigration rules and regulations can be criminalized.
Employers and domestic workers are also not allowed to enter into work contracts or other agreements, outside of the standard employment contract that has been established by the Hong Kong Government. The standard employment contract (ID 407) is the only legal employment contract for all foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. Other employment contracts between employers and domestic workers may not be enforced in Hong Kong. []
Source: A Practical Handbook for Hong Kong's Department of Foreign Labor
