That's the zillion dollar question. They are hoping to have labour laws of the expatriates home countries to be deemed relevant in their (the expats) place of work ie Hong Kong. Most of the cases are still stalled around the vexing issue of jurisdiction. The AOA's position is that the 49ers were fired for industrial reasons and therefore their terminations were unreasonable. The company stands on the labour laws of Hong Kong and their contracts with their workers which (in Hong Kong) legally allows them to terminate workers on three months notice or with payment in lieu of notice for no reason. Going to line the pockets of more blood sucking low life lawyers and not achieve much else. Whatever the outcomes the company will not take back any of the 49ers now. Should the AOA win the case/s, for the rest of us at CX it will probably mean a new batch of contracts much more tightly written and not so generous as at present. Everybody will lose from this sorry fiasco.