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Cancer-stricken Filipino domestic worker gets key legal backing from Hong Kong’s equality watchdog
Advocates and lawyers have hailed the decision by Hong Kong’s Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) to provide legal support in the court battle of Baby Jane Allas – a domestic worker from the Philippines who lost her job in 2019 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.The city’s equality watchdog has issued legal proceedings under the Disability Discrimination Ordinance in Hong Kong’s District Court on behalf of Allas, with the first hearing scheduled for March.Allas, a 40-year-old single…