Protection
of wor
workers against employers moving
operation
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Imes out of
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of Hong King
Reply by
80 questi
czątązy for Education and Manpower-
the Zoo Zilton CazZONG LZEN
-in the Legislative Council on 8 June 1983
5. MR. CHEONG-LEEN asked :
inform
this Council
moved
Will Government whether it has received complaints that Some factory owners have
their operation out of Hong Kong without paying wages due
their workers, what remedies are available to these employees; and
what
to
measures
will
Government
take
to
protect workers from similar incidents in the future?
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER :
sir,
presume
that Mr. CHEONG-LEEN's question
has been prompted by the much publicised case of the
Qualimax plastics factory, the owners of which are
alleged to have moved their factory out
factory out of Hong Kong
leaving a liability of about $660,000 in 'unpaid wages
and severance pay due to their 56 workers.
This case
is now being investigated by
investigated by the Official Receiver's
Office.
Meanwhile the workers have already received
payments totalling some $255,000
from
sc
Protection of Wages on the Fasolvency at
彪
My Stic fund.
Fortunately, this case is not typical and
we have received no other complaints involving
comparable allegations. In the first five months Of
this year
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the Labour Department's
conciliation
fficers helped in 49 cases arising from factories