Managerial Oppression

Hong Kong is a great place to live, if you have money, and it is a great place to visit, but it is a tough place to be a worker.
There is a lot of competition for jobs, people work long hours, and most are very dissatisfied with their supervisors and under enormous job-related stress.

On May 1st the HK government finally established a minimum wage which guarantees at least HK$5824 a month which translates into about US$750.

Though a minor concession, employers here have already started to devise ways to reduce the impact on their profit margins. In the most recent case, one employer is deducting wages for toilet breaks to offset the minimum wage.



The fact that there is a set amount of time for toilet breaks is further evidence of the situation many workers face.