WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1993
BILL SEEKS TO PREVENT DOUBLE PAYMENTS IN INSOLVENCY CASES
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THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO EMPOWER THE PROTECTION OF WAGES ON INSOLVENCY FUND BOARD TO RECOVER FROM A RETIREMENT SCHEME ANY EX- GRATIA PAYMENT IN RESPECT OF SEVERANCE PAYMENT MADE TO AN EMPLOYEE WHO HAS RECEIVED DOUBLE PAYMENTS IN THE INSOLVENCY PROCESS.
MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE PROTECTION OF WAGES ON INSOLVENCY (AMENDMENT) (NO.2) BILL 1993 IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR W K LAM, SAID AT PRESENT PART VA OF THE EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE PROVIDED THAT SEVERANCE PAYMENT AND RETIREMENT SCHEME PAYMENT COULD BE SET OFF AGAINST EACH OTHER.
"WHEN AN EMPLOYER BECOMES INSOLVENT, HIS EMPLOYEE WOULD NORMALLY APPLY TO THE FUND FOR SEVERANCE PAYMENT IF HE HAS NOT YET RECEIVED HIS RETIREMENT SCHEME PAYMENT,' SAID MR LAM.
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"HE MAY BE GRANTED EX-GRATIA PAYMENT OF SEVERANCE PAYMENT IF HE HAS SATISFIED THE STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS OF THE FUND.
"BECAUSE OF THE TIME LAPSE, THE EMPLOYEE MAY STILL RECEIVE HIS RETIREMENT SCHEME PAYMENT BY VIRTUE OF HIS EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT WITH THE INSOLVENT EMPLOYER AFTERWARDS.
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CONSEQUENTLY, MR LAM POINTED OUT, THE EMPLOYEE MIGHT RECEIVE DOUBLE BENEFITS FROM BOTH THE FUND AND THE RETIREMENT SCHEME TO WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER.
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
BILL TO CONSOLIDATE CONTROL ON MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL
A BILL WHICH SEEKS TO CONSOLIDATE CONTROL ON MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL WAS INTRODUCED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MOVING
THE SECOND
CONTROL READING OF THE AIR POLLUTION
THE (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL 1993,
ACTING SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR LEO KWAN, SAID POLLUTION FROM DIESEL VEHICLE EMISSIONS WAS CAUSING SERIOUS AIR POLLUTION PROBLEMS AREAS.
PER CENT OF THE TOTAL
IN THE URBAN
URBAN
RESPIRABLE DIOXIDE
75 "APPROXIMATELY PARTICULATES AND NITROGEN OXIDES, AND 40 PER CENT OF SULPHUR ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO EMISSIONS FROM DIESEL-ENGINED VEHICLES.
"BETTER CONTROLS ON SUCH EMISSIONS ARE THERefore neeDED AND ONE OF THE WAYS TO EFFECTIVELY REDUCE EMISSIONS FROM DIESEL VEHICLES IS TO
MR KWAN SAID. INTRODUCE BETTER QUALITY DIESEL FUEL,
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