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Renly by Secretar: for Zducation & Manpower to a question by zne äon, TAX Viu-chune
in Lecco on 20 January 1989
6. Mr. TAM asked (in Cantonese)
Cuestion:
The existing Employment Ordinance does not apply to поп-папual labour with waçes. exceeding $11,500 per month. In order to ensure that all employees in Hong Kong can actually benefit from the Ordinance, will Government review the Ordinance with a view to rescinding this requirement of a wage ceiling being applied to non-manual Labour?
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Answers
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MAN POWER
Sir,
The main purpose of the Employment Ordinance
is to protect lower paid employees. The present rule,
which is reviewed and updated annually, extends the
protection of the Ordinance to all manual workers and
to all other employees except the highest paid 24 per cent.
of
the
The Labour Advisory Board has many times
discussed proposals to extend the coverage
Ordinance to the comparatively small group of higher
paid employees now excluded.
S
In recent years the
Board's concensus has been in favour of keeping the
le Board's
present rule, but it plans to discuss the subject
açain in March.
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