{"id":9292,"date":"2021-01-17T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/article\/3117945\/cancer-stricken-filipino-domestic-worker-gets-key-legal-backing-hong"},"modified":"2021-01-17T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T00:00:16","slug":"cancer-stricken-filipino-domestic-worker-gets-key-legal-backing-from-hong-kongs-equality-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/cancer-stricken-filipino-domestic-worker-gets-key-legal-backing-from-hong-kongs-equality-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer-stricken Filipino domestic worker gets key legal backing from Hong Kong\u2019s equality watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"Advocates and lawyers have hailed the decision by Hong Kong\u2019s Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) to provide legal support in the court battle of Baby Jane Allas \u2013 a domestic worker from the Philippines who lost her job in 2019 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.The city\u2019s equality watchdog has issued legal proceedings under the Disability Discrimination Ordinance in Hong Kong\u2019s District Court on behalf of Allas, with the first hearing scheduled for March.Allas, a 40-year-old single\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/article\/3117945\/cancer-stricken-filipino-domestic-worker-gets-key-legal-backing-hong\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates and lawyers have hailed the decision by Hong Kong\u2019s Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) to provide legal support in the court battle of Baby Jane Allas \u2013 a domestic worker from the Philippines who lost her job in 2019 after being diagnosed w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":933,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9293,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/9293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}