ÿþ<html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-16"><TITLE>Pacific Garden Employment Agency</TITLE><meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"><link rel="stylesheet" href="tdc1.css" type="text/css"><script language="JavaScript1.2" src="tdc.js" type="text/javascript"></script></head><BODY topmargin="0" leftmargin="5" class="B2BBodyBg" bgcolor="FFFFFF" background="../gallery/571cbb2f-0145-4dd4-a954-6d8a860f3c77.jpg"><table id="contentBody" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style=""><tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="100%"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td><table style="BACKGROUND: url(http://www.maidoutlet.com/e/customize/images/bg_02.jpg) no-repeat" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" height="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="left"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="1000"><tbody><tr><td style="PADDING-LEFT: 300px" valign="top" align="left"><blockquote style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 80px" dir="ltr"><p><font size="5"><strong>News Release</strong></font></p><p> </p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-effects-shadow-color: white; mso-effects-shadow-themecolor: background1; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 100.0%; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 5400000; mso-effects-shadow-align: center; mso-effects-shadow-pctsx: 0%; mso-effects-shadow-pctsy: 0%; mso-effects-shadow-anglekx: 0; mso-effects-shadow-angleky: 0" lang="EN-US">The Government announced today (June 1,2011) that the Minimum Allowable Wage (MAW) for foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) in Hong Kong will be increased by $160 (or 4.5%) from $3,580 to $3,740 per month. <br><br> Apart from this, the food allowance in lieu of free food for FDHs will also be increased by $25 (or 3.3%), from not less than $750 to not less than $775 per month. The new levels of the MAW and food allowance will apply to all contracts signed on or after tomorrow (June 2). </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-effects-shadow-color: white; mso-effects-shadow-themecolor: background1; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 100.0%; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 5400000; mso-effects-shadow-align: center; mso-effects-shadow-pctsx: 0%; mso-effects-shadow-pctsy: 0%; mso-effects-shadow-anglekx: 0; mso-effects-shadow-angleky: 0" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-effects-shadow-color: white; mso-effects-shadow-themecolor: background1; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 100.0%; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 5400000; mso-effects-shadow-align: center; mso-effects-shadow-pctsx: 0%; mso-effects-shadow-pctsy: 0%; mso-effects-shadow-anglekx: 0; mso-effects-shadow-angleky: 0" lang="EN-US">Contracts signed with the existing MAW of $3,580 and food allowance of not less than $750 will still be processed by the Immigration Department (Im</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-effects-shadow-color: white; mso-effects-shadow-themecolor: background1; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 100.0%; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 5400000; mso-effects-shadow-align: center; mso-effects-shadow-pctsx: 0%; mso-effects-shadow-pctsy: 0%; mso-effects-shadow-anglekx: 0; mso-effects-shadow-angleky: 0" lang="EN-US">mD), provided that the applications can reach ImmD on or before June 29, 2011.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p align="center"> </p><br><br><blockquote style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 80px" dir="ltr">  </blockquote></blockquote></td></tr><tr><td><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" id="myiframe" onload="DYNIFS.resize('myiframe')" height="156" src="/PublishWebSite/maidoutlet/big5/contentPage34862.htm" frameborder="0" width="1000" name="myiframe" scrolling="no"></iframe></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td height="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" width="100%"></table></td></tr></tbody></table></BODY></html>