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Injured employees should be duly paid
The Labour Department today (Sunday) reminded employers that periodical payment for an injured employee have to be paid within seven days after the due day for payment.
The principal contractor and the employers of two injured employees, who had sustained injuries in a construction site in Kennedy Road, were recently fined a total of $73,500 in Eastern Magistracy for failing to pay periodical payments within the statutory period.
Labour Officer (Prosecutions), Mr Raymond Ho, said that under section 10 of the Employees' Compensation Ordinance, injured employees are entitled to receive periodical payments calculate at the rate of two-thirds of the monthly earnings at the time of accidents on their normal pay-days.
Failure to comply with this provision is liable to a maximum fine of $100,000 with effect from July 1, 1996.
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