cabbages
depends on how you look at it, if they reduce the manning level at the base, many of the based guys on the bottom of the list are DEFO onto the base who don't have HK
PR, they can simply give them the "oh I did offer you a job as per your contract, but since you can't get a visa, therefore your contract is terminated".... possibly don't even have to pay them the redundancy payment as per the COS
if they go the extreme of closing the bases, again those who don't have
PR will get the "oh I am sorry but it's not my fault you can't work in HK", save money on the redundancy payment too.....
The biggest hit will probably be HKE though, it's likely many of the guys there won't have spent 7 years in HK being such a new company....there are literally hundreds of 320 drivers with HKPR loitering on the street of HK at the moment