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Thursday, October 19, 1972

OBLIGATIONS AND ENTITLEMENTS OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN RECENT INCIDENT.

The Labour Department today drew the attention of employers, injured

workers and depent nts of victims involved in the recent gas explosion incident

in Causeway Bay area to their respective obligations and entitlements

under the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance.

A department spokesman said officers of the department's Workmen's

Compensation Unit were helping dependants of the deceased fireman and salesgirl, and

those injured in the accident to obtain workmen's compensation.

He stressed that all non-manual workers earning $1,500 or less

a month and all manual workers irrespective of their earnings are entitled

to compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance if they suffered

injury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment.

He added that the employers concerned should notify the department

on prescribed forms of any injury to their workers within seven days after

the accident and that they should make periodical payments to the injured

workers on their normal pay-days during the period of temporary incapacity.

He pointed out that employers, injured workmen and dependants

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of victims can obtain further information about their respective obligations

and entitlements under the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance from the

following offices of the Workmen's Compensation Unit of the Labour Department:-

New Rodney Building, Ground floor, Queensway, Hong Kong. (H-249081 ext. 97)

Canton Road Government Offices, 5th floor, Canton Road, Kowloon. (K-669014) (K-688856) (K-688626).

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