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Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Hong Kong diocesan Pastoral Commission for Workers has launched an appeal and a collection of signatures to obtain a minimum wage to meet the basic necessities of all families and ensure a dignified life for workers' families. According to the diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao, in the appeal the Commission states: “in Hong Kong today about 400,000 workers receive a monthly salary of a few thousand HK dollars. The sum is not only insufficient for the needs of daily life, it is a threat to the growth and development of the new generations”. Moreover “rational distribution is the real parameter for social prosperity ”. The numerous signatures collected include those of some twenty priests who signed the appeal underlining that according to Catholic Social Teaching: “giving a reasonable salary is a way to guarantee a dignified life for workers and their families”. They also said that the readjustment of the minimum wage which in the Hong Kong Territory happens every two years, should depend not only on profit, but also on changes in the market and in society. (NZ) (Agenzia Fides 14/06/2010 - righe 20; parole 195)
