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NO PLANS TO INCREASE RATE OF SICKNESS ALLOWANCE
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ΤΟ THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO PLANS PRESENT RATE OF SICKNESS ALLOWANCE, THE MANPOWER, THE HON K.Y. YEUNG, SAID IN THE (WEDNESDAY).
PROPOSE AN INCREASE
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION AND TODAY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
IN
HON
TAM YIU-CHUNG, 35(1) OF THE
FOR AT WOULD HAVE
LEAST FOUR CONSECUTIVE DRAWN HAD HE BEEN
MR
YEUNG EMPLOYMENT
THE IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY POINTED OUT THAT AT PRESENT, UNDER SECTION
THE ORDINANCE,
DAILY RATE OF SICKNESS ALLOWANCE PAYABLE TO AN EMPLOYEE WHO HAD BEEN CERTIFIED ILL DAYS WAS TWO-THIRDS OF THE WAGES HE WORKING.
"THIS RATE WAS RAISED FROM ONE HALF WHEN IT WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1961 TO TWO-THIRDS IN 1977.
CENT WHERE IT
"THE RATE IS BETTER THAN THE INTERNATIONAL NORM AT 60 PER AND COMPARES FAVOURABLY WITH THAT OBTAINING IN, SAY, JAPAN, IS 60 PER CENT, AND WITH TAIWAN, WHERE IT IS 50 PER CENT, HE SAID.
WOULD
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TO BE WILLING
CONSIDER
GOVERNMENT NEVERTHELESS THE SOUNDLY ARGUED PROPOSALS FOR AN INCREASE AND WOULD IN THAT EVENT THE ADVICE OF THE LABOUR ADVISORY BOARD, MR YEUNG SAID.
WERK NOT
MR YEUNG ALSO SAID THAT SICK EMPLOYEES SICKNESS ALLOWANCE FOR AT LEAST THREE DAYS BECAUSE TO DISCOURAGE MALINGERING AND ABUSE.
"THIS MINIMUM QUALIFYING PERIOD IS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AND REGIONAL PRACTICE.
SEEK
ENTITLED ΤΟ
IT WAS NECESSARY
CONSISTENT
WITH
DAY WOULD WAGE FOR ALL
FOURTH "BUT A SICK EMPLOYEE WHO REMAINS ILL ON THE OBTAIN AN ALLOWANCE OF TWO-THIRDS OF HIS OR HER NORMAL FOUR DAYS."
AS
THE REGARDS
CERTIFICATION
OF
ILLNESS, MR ANY REGISTERED
YEUNG
SAID MEDICAL
EXISTING STATUTORY RULES PROVIDED THAT PRACTITIONER WOULD DO.
TO
"BUT WHERE THE EMPLOYER IS PROVIDING A FREE MEDICAL SERVICE HIS EMPLOYEES UNDER A SCHEME OF MEDICAL TREATMENT RECOGNISED BY THE
ILLNESS BR DIRECTOR OF HEALTH, IT IS ONLY REASONABLE THAT BY DOCTORS IN THAT SCHEME," MR YEUNG POINTED OUT.
CERTIFIED
GOVERNMENT
THEREFORE, HE SAID
THE
REASON FOR CHANGING THE RULES.
0
COULD SEE
NO COMPELLING
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