Protect HongKong Director David Lorimer has called on Government to give street cleaners a fair deal. In a strongly worded e-mail to Policy Heads Lorimer demanded that staff employed by Government contractors be protected (in accordance with existing occupational safety and health guidelines) against the prevailing atrocious levels of roadside pollutants.  Pointing to the example of a 78 year old required to work for 10 hours in a public lavatory with no pay for his meal-break and no paid holiday, he called for immediate remedial measures to restore pay and conditions to levels commensurate with a first world society.  Referring to recent protests by the contractors who employ these workers, Lorimer suggested that they be permitted to resile from their contracts as they have requested and that workers instead be made permanent members of the Food and Environmental Health Department.