The Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) has urged domestic helper’s employers to negotiate accommodation arrangements during the current partial lockdown that can help reduce their movements within the SAR.
Macau SAR authorities have ordered the suspension of all commercial and industrial business activities in the city for seven days starting from midnight on 11 July, with the exception of those that maintain the normal operation of the society.
Domestic helpers have been allowed by authorities to circulate in the city for work and other essential tasks. In order to board public buses or travel within the city, they must show non-resident work cards that describe their employment.
Those who only have a receipt may request a temporary working card from the Migration which will allow them to travel by bus.
However, labour and health authorities have requested for employers to arrange for those workers to stay in at the employer’s house or in a separate place so as to reduce their movements and possible transmission risks.
“As the epidemic prevention is currently at a critical stage, non-essential crowd gathering activities should be avoided or reduced as much as possible and people flow in the community should be reduced, so as to reduce the risk of disease transmission,’ DSAL added.
The Labour Affairs Bureau reminds that any resident or non-resident employee who violates the rule of going outside or does not wear a KN95 face mask when going outside, according to the Law on the Prevention, Control and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, shall be liable to imprisonment up to two years or a maximum fine of 240 days.
