WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1994
AND TO ENABLE LONG SERVING EMPLOYEES TO EARN SEVERANCE PAYMENT
BEYOND 18 YEARS, WE PAYMENT
ΤΟ PROPOSED LONG SERVICE
REMOVE THE MAXIMUM PAYMENT 12 MONTHS' AGGREGATE WAGES, BUT THE
OF CEILING OF $180,000 WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED. THIS MAXIMUM AMOUNT WOULD BE REVIEWED PERIODICALLY, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT INFLATION AND GENERAL WAGE MOVEMENT.
ALSO PROPOSE FINANCIAL IMPACT UN EMPLOYERS, WE TO CUSHION
'To
RECOGNIZE
AND AN EMPLOYER'S SERVICE OVER
ABOVE 24 YEARS
ACCRUED
AMENDMENT BILL
INTO COMES
OPERATION WHEN
THIS PAYMENT AND LONG SERVICE PAYMENT. CALCULATING
IS A EMPLOYEES AS FURTHER IMPROVEMENT TO THE ENTITLEMENT OF LONG SERVING
SERVICE THE PREVIOUS BILL ONLY PROPOSED THAT HALF OF AN EMPLOYEE'S BEYOND
THE THIS PROPOSAL WOULD INCREASE 18 YEARS SHOULD BE COUNTED, TOTAL WAGE BILL OF EMPLOYERS BY 0.033% IN 1994.
THE
HALF OF BEFORE THE
SEVERANCE
AT PRESENT, A FEMALE EMPLOYEE WHO HAS BEEN EMPLOYED BY THE SAME 26 EMPLOYER UNDER A CONTINUOUS CONTRACT FOR A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN
BE
THE WEEKS SHALL
ENTITLED TO MATERNITY LEAVE. HOWEVER,
LAW IS EMPLOYEE SILENT
IS HOW TO COUNT THE 26 WEEKS WHEN THE PREGNANT ON ABOUT TO TAKE MATERNITY LEAVE. WE PROPOSE TO REMOVE THIS AMBIGUITY BY
IN THE LAW THAT THE 26-WEEK SPECIFYING
PERIOD SHOULD BE COUNTED BACKWARD FROM THE EXPECTED DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF MATERNITY ΤΟ IMPROVE PROTECTION TO PREGNANT EMPLOYEES, WE ALSO PROPOSE TO
PAYMENT LATE
A OF MATERNITY LEAVE PAY AN OFFENCE LIABLE TO FINE OF $10,000.
LEAVE.
MAKE MAXIMUM
A
IS
BY
THE UNDER
IS EXISTING EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE, AN EMPLOYER THE PAY SICKNESS ALLOWANCE TO AN EMPLOYEE UNLESS
DAY OF LIABLE TO SICKNESS IS SPECIFIED IN AN APPROPRIATE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE ISSUED
BY HOWEVER, A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE ISSUED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.
DENTIST IS REGISTERED
NOT REGARDED AS AN APPROPRIATE MEDICAL AN CERTIFICATE.
EMPLOYEE HAVING ENCOUNTERED
INJURY A DENTAL
OR LEAVE RECEIVED A DENTAL SURGICAL OPERATION REQUIRING A FEW DAYS' SICK
IMPROVE THE AT PRESENT UNABLE TO RECEIVE SICKNESS ALLOWANCE. TO SITUATION,
ISSUED WE ALSO PROPOSE TO INCLUDE THE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE REGISTERED DENTIST A
THE AS A VALID DOCUMENT FOR
PURPOSE OF CLAIMING SICKNESS ALLOWANCE.
NOT
BY
A
-
EMPLOYEES RETRAINING (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994 INTRODUCED
* * *
FOLLOWING IS THE SPEECH BY THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR LAM WOON-KWONG, IN MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE EMPLOYEES RETRAINING (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994 IN THE LEGISLATIVE TODAY (WEDNESDAY);
COUNCIL
MR PRESIDENT,
I MOVE THE SECOND READING OF THE EMPLOYEES. (AMENDMENT) BILL. 1994.
RETRAINING
THIS BILL SEEKS TO INTRODUCE A NUMBER OF TECHNICAL THE EMPLOYEES RETRAINING ORDINANCE TO BRING IT IN LINK PRESENT NEED.
TO
/WHEN THE
AMENDMENTS
WITH
THE