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MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1994

THE

THE SPOKEMAN ADDED THAT ALL OF

DEPARTMENT'S WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAMME BY THE END OF THE YEAR.

GOP

CLINICS

PLEDGED TO PROVIDE EFFICIENT

CUSTOMER

SERVICE

AND

THE PARTICIPATING CLINICS HAVE SERVICE,

PATIENT QUALITY

CARE, QUALITY COMFORTABLE CLINIC ENVIRONMENT TO USERS

CONTINUITY

SOME OF THE PERFORMANCE PLEDGE FEATURES INCLUDE THE

MEDICAL RECORDS, PATIENTS BEING OF PATIENT CARE THROUGH INDIVIDUAL

LABELLING, HEALTH ATTENDED TO WITHIN THE PLEDGED WAITING TIMES, DRUG COUNSELLING EDUCATION AND SELF-CARE SUPPORT GROUPS FOR PATIENTS.

THAT A

THE SPOKESMAN SAID

"FRIENDLIEST CLINIC COMPETITION" THE GOP CLINICS HELD LAST DECEMBER FOUND THAT PATIENTS RATED ALL OF AND CLINIC STAFF CONCERNED AS "FRIENDLY".

THE FIRST AND SECOND PHASE OF THIS PROGRAMME, COVERING CLINICS, WERE LAUNCHED IN DECEMBER 1992 AND AUGUST 1993.

THE DEPARTMENT

28 GOP

THIS

AND CHEST

THE SPOKESMAN SAID

WOULD EXTEND PERFORMANCE PLEDGES IN PHASES TO THE MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTRES LATER YEAR,

AND TO SPECIALISED SERVICES SUCH AS THE TUBERCULOSIS AND DERMATOLOGY SERVICES IN 1995.

LAB DISCUSSES REVISION OF FINES

UNDER EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE

* * * *

A

ORDINANCE

LABOUR ADVISORY BOARD (LAR) MEMBERS TODAY (MONDAY) DISCUSSED PROPOSAL TO REVISE THE LEVELS OF FINES UNDER THE EMPLOYMENT (BO) AND ITS SUBSIDIARY REGULATIONS.

AT

THE

FOR MEETING CHAIRED BY THE COMMISSIONER

LABOUR, MRS KATHERINE FOK, BOARD MEMBERS WERE BRIEFED THAT THE FINES IMPOSED UNDER

ONDINANCE AND ITS TWO SUBSIDIARY REGULATIONS, THE THE

EMPLOYMENT OF

AND CHILDREN REGULATIONS

THE WOMEN

PERSONS AND YOUNG

REGULATIONS,

CONSIDERED TO BE INADEQUATE AFTER THE

TIME.

WERE

(INDUSTRY) PASSAGE

OF

NON- UNLAWFUL

ΤΟ

THEY WERE INFORMED THAT THE MAXIMUM FINE FOR OFFENCES ON PAYMENT, UNDERPAYMENT OR LATE PAYMENT OF WAGES, AND THAT ON

FROM $20,000 OF WAGES HAD BEEN REVISED IN APRIL 1992 DEDUCTION $200,000 AND ONE YEAR'S IMPRISONMENT, AND FROM $10,000 TO $100,000 AND ONE YEAR'S IMPRISONMENT RESPECTIVELY.

THE OTHER FINES HAVE NOT BEEN REVISED SINCE MAY 1988 AND IT WAS NECESSARY TO REVISE THE LEVELS OF FINES TO ACHIEVE A DETERRENT EFFECT.

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MINOR OR UNDER THE PROPOSAL, THREE LEVELS OF MAXIMUM FINES

SERIOUS AND

WERK SET DEPENDING ON THE TECHNICAL, SERJOUSNESS OF THE OFFENCE.

VERY SERIOUS

—

THE PROPOSED