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
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
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
\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
\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
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,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[38397,38393,38395,38398,38399,97,5425,259,38396,260,38394,858,29056,6857],"class_list":["post-49539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-acts-consulting","tag-alexa-chow-yee-ping","tag-doris-tsui-ue-ting","tag-equal-opportunities-commission","tag-ferrick-chu-chung-man","tag-health","tag-hong-kong","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-conditions","tag-mentalhealth","tag-sick-leaves","tag-stigma","tag-work-from-home","tag-work-hours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}