{"id":29512,"date":"2015-06-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/06\/20150619_151530.shtml"},"modified":"2015-06-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T04:00:00","slug":"21-illegal-workers-arrested-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/06\/19\/21-illegal-workers-arrested-2\/","title":{"rendered":"21 illegal workers arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Crime_02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Immigration officers have arrested 18 illegal workers and their three employers in an anti-illegal work crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They raided 15 locations including restaurants, stalls, a factory and units under renovation on June 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nine of the suspects were arrested for breaching their conditions of stay by being involved in parallel trading in Lok Ma Chau.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department reminded employers not to hire illegal workers and warned visitors not to take up employment in Hong Kong without permission from the Director of Immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Crime_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Immigration officers have arrested 18 illegal workers and their three employers in an anti-illegal work crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They raided 15 locations including restaurants, stalls, a factory and units under renovation on June 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nine of the suspects were arrested for breaching their conditions of stay by being involved in parallel trading in Lok Ma Chau.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The department reminded employers not to hire illegal workers and warned visitors not to take up employment in Hong Kong without permission from the Director of Immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29513,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29512\/revisions\/29513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}