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Written answers to questions
Protection for Hong Kong residents working abroad
Question No.
Written reply by the Hon RG B Bridge, OBE, JP Secretary for Education and Manpower to a question by the Hon TAM Yiu-chang In the Legislative Council on 11 May 1988
4. MR. TAM asked:
question?:
Question: In
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view of the increasing number of residents taking up employment abroad, will Government inform this Council what measures are being taken to ensure that these workers are given full protection as provided under the Employment Ordinance
the Employees' Compensation Ordinance?
and
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:
Answer
Sir,
Statutory protection for this category of workers
is provided by the Contracts for Employment Outside Hong
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Kong Ordinance (Cap.787 to
safeguard
the interests
of
manual workers who
who wish to take up employment wholly or t partly outside Hong Kong.
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This ordinance requires the employer or his duly
authorised representative to enter into a written contract
with the worker. The contract must be signed by the worker
and attested by the Labour Department before he leaves Hong
Kong for employment.
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The ordinance requires that the contract must
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contain information about rates of wages and overtime, days
and hours of work, rest days and public holidays. It must
also provide for varying or
contract and
terminating the
make the employer responsible for providing passages to and
from the place of work for the worker.