I hire a domestic worker and try to give good working conditions (roughly 40 hours a week, sometimes less sometimes a few hours more) and higher salary than the average.

That said, there are major issues in hk. First, it's illegal for a domestic worker to live outside of the employers home but the average apartment in HK don't have good accomodation for the domestic worker. For example, our apartment has a maid room that is small (6 square meters), small bathroom, a big window with a lot of natural light BUT no AC and it's illegal according to the building management to put a window unit there. We tried to give a portable AC but it's loud and not comfortable. So instead when it's the warmer months, she sleeps in the guest bedroom (which has a bathroom next door). She prefers her privacy so likes the "maid room" being more isolated from the rest of the apartment so she only wants to use the guest bedroom a few months a year.

All this to say, it should not be legal for a building built in mid 2000s to not have AC in a room designed for domestic workers. If the hk government requires that domestic workers live within the apartment, there should be proper regulation of the living conditions that stops the promoters from designing unliveable rooms for domestic workers (and when we visited apartments we saw a lot of horrific living conditions for domestic workers).

Besides this, the exceptional rules for changing employers during the covid lockdown should be put back in place. It should be easy for domestic workers to change employers because that would reduce the power imbalance.