Bangladeshi woman accuses employer and supervisor at Hong Kong law firm of sexually harassing her

A Bangladeshi woman has taken to court her former employer and supervisor who allegedly sexually and racially harassed her, including calling her slurs and describing sexual activities to her while she worked at a law firm in Hong Kong.

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said on Friday it had issued legal proceedings in the District Court on behalf of the accuser, adding it hoped the case would raise public awareness of illegal sexual and racial harassment acts in the workplace.

Khan Saima Begum alleged that her former employer Tsui Pui-hung at WT Law Offices, where she worked as a part-time law clerk from around March 2021 to February 2022, addressed her using offensive Hindi words.

She also accused Tsui of calling her “Paki”, an insulting term referring to people from Pakistan and other South Asian countries, as well as telling her all “Paki” were dishonest people and “crooks”.

The accuser claimed that her request for Tsui to stop using such terms went ignored.

On one occasion on February 10, 2022, the ex-employer was accused of yelling that she was a “stupid lazy Paki”.

The woman also claimed that her supervisor at the law firm, identified as Manuraj in the legal document, taught Tsui the obscenities.