Over a hundred (129 to be exact) Hong Kong civil servants and 535 non-civil servant government employees have left or resigned last year, refusing to comply with the newly introduced oath-taking declaration-signing requirement by the Hong Kong government.
The Hong Kong government requires civil servants to take an oath or sign a declaration of allegiance to the authority. This requirement was introduced last year and had been extended to cover non-civil servant employees as well.
Tsang Kwok-wai, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, revealed in reply to a written question during a recent sitting of the Legislative Council, that 129 civil servants who had ignored or refused to sign and return the declaration left their government posts last year….