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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1992

INJURED WORKERS TO GET $600,000 FROM FUND BOARD

PAY OUT 16 APPLICANTS

THE EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION ASSISTANCE FUND BOARD WILL

OF $600,000 FROM TOMORROW (MONDAY) TO THE FIRST BATCH WHO HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO OBTAIN COMPENSATION FROM THEIR WORK INJURIES.

MADE BY

LEGAL THE

EMPLOYERS FOR

DEPARTMENT ON ASSISTED BOARD'S

AID "THE PAYMENT WILL BE BEHALF OF THE FUND BOARD AS MOST OF THE APPLICANTS HAVE BEEN BY

CLAIMS, PURSUING THE DEPARTMENT IN CHAIRMAN, MR ANTHONY NEOH, SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).

MR NEOH

NOTED THAT

SOME

THEIR

中中

THE FUND

WERE BEING 30 ADDITIONAL CASES

MADE RULINGS ON PROCESSED BY THE FUND BOARD AND THAT THE COURTS HAD THE AMOUNTS OF COMPENSATION IN NINE OF THESE CASES.

EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION ASSISTANCE

AWAITED,

"THE REMAINING

INVOLVE

20-ODD CASES, IN APPLICATIONS MADE

COURT WHICH

UNDER A

WHERE ORDINANCE,

HE ADDED.

JUDGEMENT IS PROVISION OF THE THE BOARD MAY

UNDER THE

ORDINANCE, ABLE

AND EMPLOYEES

OF

TO RECEIVE

MAKE 'PAYMENT IN ANTICIPATION OF ENTITLEMENT',

DEPENDANTS

DECEASED

EMPLOYEES MAY BE

ENTITLEMENT, THEIR COMPENSATION

CASES ARISING OUT OF THE INCLUDING COMMON LAW AWARDS, IN DEFAULT EMPLOYER'S FAILURE TO INSURE THEM OR FROM THE INSURER'S INSOLVENCY.

MAKING OR WINDING-UP

"THE LEGAL AID DEPARTMENT AT PRESENT ASSISTS WORKERS IN CLAIMS TO THE FUND BOARD IN CASES WHICH AWAIT COURT JUDGEMENT, WHICH THE EMPLOYER HAS DIED OR CANNOT BE LOCATED FOLLOWING OF HIS BUSINESS, MR NEOH SAID.

IN

HE ADDED THAT THE FUND BOARD RECEIVED ABOUT $14 MILLION FROM

INSURANCE COMPENSATION ONE PER CENT LEVY ON EMPLOYEES' 1991/92.

A

PREMIUMS

IN

THE

ANY PERSON WHO HAS A CLAIM UNDER THE

ASSISTANCE COMPENSATION EMPLOYEES

EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION DIVISION

ORDINANCE MAY APPLY FUND BOARD

ΤΟ

THROUGH

THE

LABOUR DEPARTMENT ON

THE

CAN

THE OF

FIRST FLOOR OF HARBOUR BUILDING, 38 PIER ROAD, CENTRAL. ENQUIRIES ALSO BE MADE TO THE DIVISION ON TEL. 852 4821.

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