Hong Kong workers reel as minimum wage is frozen


A worker walks past a barricaded entrance to Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2020. - AFP

HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): Hong Kong’s labour sector is demanding an annual review of the city’s minimum wage policy, and that workers be granted subsidies if their wages are not raised.

The minimum wage has been frozen amid the Covid-19 pandemic for the first time since the law took effect a decade ago.

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