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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1991
EMPLOYERS FINED FOR DELAYING WAGES TO IMPORTED WORKERS
WORKERS WERE YESTERDAY TWO EMPLOYERS OF IMPORTED FINED BY THE COURT FOR DELAY IN WAGE PAYMENT AND FAILURE STATUTORY HOLIDAY TO THE WORKERS.
(THURSDAY) TO GRANT A
OF
WITHIN THE
THE HANG LEE GARMENT FACTORY IN KWUN TONG WAS FINED A TOTAL
PAY WAGES AMOUNTING $2,000 BY A KWUN TONG MAGISTRATE FOR FAILING TO TO $1,631 AND $1,721 RESPECTIVELY TO TWO IMPORTED WORKERS PERIOD REQUIRED BY LAW.
AN EMPLOYER MUST PAY ACCORDING TO THE EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE,
CASE NOT WAGES DUE TO HIS WORKERS AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE, AND IN ANY LATER THAN SEVEN DAYS AFTER THE WAGES BECOME DUE.
THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT TOOK OUT PROSECUTION AGAINST THE THE PROPRIETOR FOLLOWING COMPLAINTS BY IMPORTED WORKERS FROM EARLIER LAST MONTH ABOUT ARREARS OF WAGES.
FACTORY FACTORY
SAI
IN ANOTHER CASE, THE PROPRIETOR OF THE LER TAT SHIPYARD IN
$170 ΤΟ AN KUNG WAS FINED $500 BY A KWUN TONG MAGISTRATE FOR PAYING INIVORTED WORKER IN LIEU OF THE GRANTING OF A STATUTORY HOLIDAY.
THE OFFENCE WAS DETECTED BY LABOUR INSPECTORS DURING A INSPECTION TO THE SHIPYARD IN MAY.
ROUTINE
ΤΟ UNDER THE EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE, AN EMPLOYER MAY BE FINED UP
UP ΤΟ $10,000 FOR $20,000 FOR FAILING TO PAY WAGES IN DUE TIME AND
OF TUE GRANTING OF A STATUTORY MAKING PAYMENT TO WORKERS IN LIEU HOLIDAY.
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SEVEN FILIPINO DOMESTIC HELPERS ARRESTED
ON INFORMATION, ACTING (THURSDAY) ARRESTED SEVEN
THE
BREACH OF STANLEY MARKET.
IMMIGRATION INVESTIGATORS
IMMIGRATION
FILIPINO
ORDINANCE
DOMESTIC
DURING
HELPERS FOR
AN OPERATION
YESTERDAY SUSPECTED
AT
THE
IMMIGRATION INVESTIGATORS HAD CONDUCTED IDENTITY CHECKS PEOPLE AT 15 SHOPS.
THE ARRESTED PERSONS, FOUR WOMEN AND THREE MEN AGED 26 UP
EMPLOYMENT ΤΟ
UNAPPROVED HAVE TAKEN WERE SUSPECTED ASSISTANTS IN VARIOUS SHOPS AT STANLEY MARKET. ONE OF THEM FOUND TO HAVE OVERSTAYED IN HONG KONG.
ON 40
TO 38, AS SALES WAS ALSO
FOUR HONG KONG RESIDENTS ARE ASSISTING WITH THE INVESTIGATION.
FOR A
UNDER THE LAWS OF HONG A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID
18 ONLY PERMITTED ΤΟ WORK KONG, A FOREIGN DOMESTIC HELPER SPECIFIC EMPLOYER UNDER A SPECIFIC EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT.
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