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SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1992

APART FROM GETTING BLACK AND WHITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FOR MAKING, COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FALSE COLOUR INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHS SOMETIMES TAKEN FOR PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION USES,

AN AVERAGE

BACH OF 7,000 PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN 1989. THERE IS A STEADY INCREASE OF 10 PER CENT EACH YEAR.

YEAR

WITH THE CHEK LAP KOK AIRPORT PROJECT NOW IN FULL SWING,

ON THE AIRPORT SITE ARE EXPECTED IN FUTURE.

PHOTOGRAPHS

MAP-

ARE

SINCE

MORE

EMPLOYER FINED FOR DEDUCTING IMPORTED WORKER'S WAGES

REMINDED EMPLOYERS THAT THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT TODAY (SUNDAY)

WAGES OF THEY ARE LIABLE TO HEAVY FINES FOR UNLAWFULLY DEDUCTING THE THEIR IMPORTED WORKERS.

WAS CONVICTED OF

MUN THE TOPTECH INDUSTRIAL LIMITED IN TUEN UNLAWFUL WAGE DEDUCTION AND WAS FINED $2,000 BY A TUEN MUN MAGISTRATE EARLIER THIS MONTH.

HAD DEDUCTED $1,640 THE PROVISIONS OF THE

LABOUR INSPECTORS FOUND THAT THE COMPANY FROM AN IMPORTED WORKER'S WAGES, CONTRARY TO EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE.

DEDUCTING

ΤΟ

OFFICER

"THE EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE PROHIBITS AN EMPLOYER FROM THE WAGES OF HIS EMPLOYEES EXCEPT UNDER SPECIFIC CONDITIONS AND UP

AND ACCOMMODATION A CERTAIN LIMIT, SUCH AS FOR THE PROVISION OF FOOD

SENIOR EMPLOYER, AND RECOVERY OF LOANS MADE BY THE (PROSECUTIONS), MR JOHN SUNG, EXPLAINED.

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LABOUR

OTHER THAN IS A

"ANY DEDUCTION FROM AN IMPORTED WORKER'S WAGES PERMITTED BY THE ORDINANCE IS UNLAWFUL AND AN OFFENDER IS LIABLE TO MAXIMUM FINE OF $10,000," HE POINTED OUT.

AMENDMENT ΤΟ THE

MR SUNG NOTED THAT AN

ORDINANCE HAD BEEN MAXIMUM INTRODUCED TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SEEKING TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR THE OFFENCE

OF A FINE

YEAR'S

IMPRISONMENT.

ΤΟ

$100,000

CONTINUE то

PLUS ONE

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VISIT EMPLOYERS OF THE ORDINANCE, HE BE TAKEN OUT AGAINST OFFENDERS

"OUR LABOUR INSPECTORS WILL IMPORTED WORKERS TO ENSURE THEIR COMPLIANCE WITH SAID, ADDING THAT PROSECUTION WILL WHERE THERE IS EVIDENCE.

"WE HAVE SUCCEEDED IN PROSECUTING SIX EMPLOYERS ON

HE SAID. OF UNLAWFUL DEDUCTION OF WAGES SO FAR THIS YEAR,

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18 CHARGES

EXPLOITED BY

MR SUNG ALSO CALLED ON IMPORTED WORKERS WHO WERE THEIR EMPLOYERS TO COME FORWARD AND REPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT TO UNSCRUPULOUS EMPLOYERS TO JUSTICE.

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