{"id":319864,"date":"2025-08-05T13:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319864\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:05:30","slug":"hong-kong-equality-watchdog-issues-mental-health-workplace-support-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319864\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong equality watchdog issues mental health workplace support guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s equality watchdog has launched a guide on supporting employees with mental health conditions in the workplace, recommending measures ranging from adopting flexible hours to having regular short breaks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 30-page guide was issued on Tuesday by the Equal Opportunities Commission, which received 222 complaints of discrimination related to mental health conditions between 2022 and June 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Doris Tsui Ue-ting, head of policy, research and training with the commission, said most cases involved dismissing an employee after learning about the mental health condition or following the taking of a certain number of sick leaves.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur conciliation rate is over 80 per cent, but it doesn\u2019t mean the employers know what to do,\u201d Tsui said, referring to cases that were resolved.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhat we wish to achieve is to bring the principles of inherent requirements and reasonable accommodations to employers, so they can assess [the situation] before taking the next steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tsui also believed the complaint figures were the tip of the iceberg, as many more were likely to be reluctant to seek help due to stigma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s equality watchdog has launched a guide on supporting employees with mental health conditions in the workplace,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[116031,116027,116029,116032,116033,105,3749,218,116030,116028,22473,16,15,11143,86969],"class_list":{"0":"post-319864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-acts-consulting","9":"tag-alexa-chow-yee-ping","10":"tag-doris-tsui-ue-ting","11":"tag-equal-opportunities-commission","12":"tag-ferrick-chu-chung-man","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-hong-kong","15":"tag-mental-health","16":"tag-mental-health-conditions","17":"tag-sick-leaves","18":"tag-stigma","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-work-from-home","22":"tag-work-hours"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114976308288964691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}