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The Employees' Compensation Ordinance (Cap. 282) provides for the payment of compensation to an employee who is injured in an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. But there are provisions under which certain accidents are deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to be arising out of and in the course of employment. They include accidents which happen when the employee is travelling from or to the place of work by means of transport provided by the employer, and accidents which happen when the employee is travelling for the purposes of, and in connection with, his employment between Hong Kong and any place outside Hong Kong or between any place outside Hong Kong and any other such place.
The Government's policy on employees' compensation is to ensure that an employer is liable to compensate his/her employees for injuries they have sustained as a direct consequence of their work, instead of other activities not related to work. Therefore, we do not consider it appropriate to make it a statutory requirement that employers should take out additional compulsory employees' compensation insurance to cover non-work-related injuries sustained by employees who are on overseas assignments. Employers are, nevertheless, free to consider providing such insurance cover in their employment contracts with employees.
Disciplined services Overtime work arrangements appropriate
Following is a question by the Hon Christine Loh and a written reply by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Will the Administration inform this Council:
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by a breakdown in tabulated form, of the conditioned hours of work as well as the arrangements for compensating overtime work undertaken by officers in various ranks in the disciplined services; and
of the reasons for any differences in the conditioned hours of work and arrangements for compensating overtime work in the disciplined services, and whether a review will be undertaken with a view to removing such differences?