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The Nishimatsu Construction Company Limited was fined $15,000 while Tapbo Civil Engineering Company was fined $12,000.
Labour Officer (Prosecutions), Mrs Tonia Leung, said under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance, an employer had to compensate an injured employee according to what was stated in the Certificate of Compensation Assessment (Form 5) within 21 days after the certificate was issued.
"If he fails to do so upon expiry of the payment period, he shall pay a surcharge to the employee. Failure to pay the outstanding compensation and the surcharge upon the expiry of three months after the payment period will incur a further surcharge. The maximum penalty for each of the three offences is $10,000," she added.
She emphasised that under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance, a principal contractor was liable to pay compensation to an employee employed by his sub-contractor.
End/Saturday, April 1, 1995
Plea on slope safety
With the onset of the wet season, the Buildings Department is urging owners to ensure that all drains, surface water channels on slopes and retaining walls are kept clear and free of debris.
"All buried services should also be examined for signs of leakage or water flow," the department's Assistant Director, Mr Mike Green, said today (Saturday).
To safeguard the public and bring private slopes and retaining walls up to the required safety standard, Mr Green pointed out that the Buildings Department issued "dangerous hillsides" notices under the Buildings Ordinance on the advice of the Geotechnical Engineering Office of the Civil Engineering Department.
Since the early 80s, about 400 such notices had been served on owners of private slopes.
"These notices require the owners to appoint an authorised professional to investigate the stability of the slopes in question, to design and supervise the necessary landslip preventive works, to monitor stability until completion of the remedial works and to give warning of impending danger," Mr Green explained.