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Sources: 3 Heads of Engineering Team at Cable News Fired by News Director

According to sources cited by Apple Daily, three engineering team heads got a termination letter from their news director on August 21, 2020 effective immediately.

They have worked at Cable News for around 20 years. They were the first batch of employees when Cable News was just established. They were responsible for maintaining network connections, live broadcast signals, assisting news interviewing, editorials and other back-end works. They have a good relationship with journalists. It's reported that some journalists couldn’t stop crying when they knew the company let go of them.

Cable News had underwent a major staffing change during early August, with Anderson Chan Hing-cheong and Oscar Lee taking the position of news director.

Source: Apple Daily #Aug21
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#iCable #LayOff #Petition
200+ employees petition for i-Cable management to reveal reasons behind dismissal of engineering team heads

Source: Stand News #Aug22
https://bit.ly/31ghHSS

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200+ employees petition for i-Cable management to reveal reasons behind dismissal of engineering team heads

More than 200 employees from the Public Information of i-Cable petitioned, requesting for the management to reveal their true intentions behind the firing of 3 heads of the engineering team.

i-Cable responded to not affect the operation of the public information department

i-Cable filled the vacant roles in what seemed like an unbroken succession. The 3 heads of the engineering team were fired on 21 August on immediate notice.

Read here: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24406

More than 200 people in Public information Department, including every editors and journalists from the Hong Kong News team and all journalists from the China news team signed the petitioned directed to the i-Cable chairmen, David Chiu Tat -Cheong, and the Chief financial officer (CFO), Kwok Chi-Kin.

The employees felt “shocked, puzzled and angry” and expressed that this move would result in an “irrevocable loss of i-Cable”

They mentioned in the open letter that they did not approve of the management's decision to that dismiss the 3 heads without any prior notice. They also doubted the claims that from the management that this doing had no adverse effects on the daily operation of the company. They also requested for the management to explain the reasons behind the personnel changes.

The 3 new senior management officers mentioned in the letter are ex-senior management of another pro-Establishment TV station ATV, Anderson Chan Hing-cheong, Edna Tse, and Oscar Lee. Fung Tak-hung was reappointed to be an advisor.

i-Cable responded that the dismissal of the 3 people from engineering teams was a result of a “regular review of organisation structure and Human Resources”. They also mentioned that a reasonable and sufficient compensation package have been arranged according to the Employees’ Compensation Ordinance of Labour Department. They further reiterated their claims the dismissal "will not affect the daily operation of public information department”.

Source: Stand News #Aug22
https://bit.ly/31ghHSSn

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#PressFreedom #iCable
Over 400 Former Staff Demand iCable Management to Stop Sacking Employees and Tarnishing the Channel's Credibility

Over 240 staff from Cable News petitioned to condemn the management for unreasonably sacking 3 senior supervisors of the Engineering Department at the news channel.

Read more about the petition:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24432

On August 25, a joint statement signed by 406 former staff was published on Stand News, Apple Daily and Mingpao Daily through crowdfunding, demanding the iCable management to stop making unreasonable personnel changes.

The collective statement pointed out that the reputation and credibility of Cable News were not built overnight. Seeing its impending decline, former staff members could not stay in silence.

Read more about the management's response:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24406

According to Stand News, at least 2 former Cable News staff who are now working at the free-to-air pro-Establishment channel TVB, were pressured by the management of the news department to remove their signature from the petition.

Source: Stand News #Aug25

#TVB #Suppression #FreeSpeech