The government plans to triple the childbirth fees for non-resident domestic helpers, while other non-resident workers’ birthing fees will be raised ninefold, or by 800 percent, as previously announced, according to a spokesperson for the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture yesterday.
The spokesperson told The Macau Post Daily on the phone yesterday that the government plans to raise the childbirth fees ninefold for the other non-resident workers as previously proposed.
According to a report by The Macau Post Daily on Friday which quoted the Portuguese-language radio station of government-owned broadcaster TDM, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng told migrant worker representatives that the government planned to triple the childbirth fees for non-resident workers and not – as previously proposed by the Health Bureau (SSM) – increase the fees by 800 percent, or ninefold, for them.
