Charmaine Choi and William Yiu

The head of a Hong Kong special education secondary school who was fired at the weekend has filed a complaint with the Labour Department claiming “unreasonable termination”.

The move came after principal Wong Lai-ting, who was sacked last Saturday, and about 10 teaching and administrative staff accused the board of Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre Chan Nam Cheong Memorial School in Aberdeen of gross mismanagement at a press conference last Thursday and asked the government to step in.

The group said the board was trying to “paralyse the school operation” by “suppressing teachers”.

Wong spoke through a video link at the press conference and other staff involved attended in person.