Friday, January 12, 1973
STATUTORY HOLIDAYS FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
During Lunar New Year
The Commissioner of Labour, Mr. Paul Tsui, to-day reminded employers
that the Lunar New Year's Day and the following day are statutory holidays
for industrial workers.
This year, the Lunar New Year's Day and the second day of Lunar
New Year fall on February 3 and 4.
With few exceptions, Mr. Tsui said all manual workers in industrial
undertakings paid on a monthly, daily or piese-rate basis must be given
two holidays on these two days.
Non-manual workers in industrial undertakings earning not more
than $700 a month would have the same right.
An employer should grant a female worker, or a worker who is a
young person, another holiday on February 5 if the statutory holiday on
February 4 falls on a scheduled rest day of the worker.
The two paid holidays are among the six statutory holidays in a
year to which industrial workers are entitled under the Industrial Employment
(Holidays with Pay and Sickness Allowance) Ordinance.
The other four statutory holidays are:
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Ching Ming Festival;
Tuen Ng (Dragon Boat) Festival;
The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival; and Chinese Winter Solstice Festival.
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