M
le
has
Clause 2 requires the employee
on his other
concurrent
to
provide
employments
to his
information employer on request. This will enable the employer to take out full insurance coverage for his liability under Section
one of his 11(7) of the Ordinance. This provides that when/an employees
concurrent contracts with two or more employers and is injured in his part-time employment, his monthly earnings for the purpose of computing compensation will be
all the concurrent contracts. total of his earnings under
This method of reckoning earnings will employee fails to supply the particulars requested by the
employer.
the sum
not apply if the
Clause 3 of the Bill raises the ceiling of
employer's advance payment
injured employee
to $20,000 a pending case from $10,000 dependants in order to reflect wage and cost of living increases.
an
to an
or his
in
Clause 5 requires that objections to the assessment
of a compensation assessment board must be made through the
Commissioner
for
This Labour.
will enable
the
extended
Certificate of
Compensation
system Assessment
to
be
implemented more effectively.
At present it is not an offence for an employer not
to pay the compensation or the surcharge.
Clauses 4(d) and
7(c) make it an offence with a maximum penalty of a fine of
$10,000.