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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1994

AND TO ENABLE LONG SERVING EMPLOYEES TO EARN SEVERANCE PAYMENT

BEYOND 18 YEARS, WE PAYMENT

ΤΟ PROPOSED LONG SERVICE

REMOVE THE MAXIMUM PAYMENT 12 MONTHS' AGGREGATE WAGES, BUT THE

OF CEILING OF $180,000 WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED. THIS MAXIMUM AMOUNT WOULD BE REVIEWED PERIODICALLY, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT INFLATION AND GENERAL WAGE MOVEMENT.

ALSO PROPOSE FINANCIAL IMPACT UN EMPLOYERS, WE TO CUSHION

'To

RECOGNIZE

AND AN EMPLOYER'S SERVICE OVER

ABOVE 24 YEARS

ACCRUED

AMENDMENT BILL

INTO COMES

OPERATION WHEN

THIS PAYMENT AND LONG SERVICE PAYMENT. CALCULATING

IS A EMPLOYEES AS FURTHER IMPROVEMENT TO THE ENTITLEMENT OF LONG SERVING

SERVICE THE PREVIOUS BILL ONLY PROPOSED THAT HALF OF AN EMPLOYEE'S BEYOND

THE THIS PROPOSAL WOULD INCREASE 18 YEARS SHOULD BE COUNTED, TOTAL WAGE BILL OF EMPLOYERS BY 0.033% IN 1994.

THE

HALF OF BEFORE THE

SEVERANCE

AT PRESENT, A FEMALE EMPLOYEE WHO HAS BEEN EMPLOYED BY THE SAME 26 EMPLOYER UNDER A CONTINUOUS CONTRACT FOR A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN

BE

THE WEEKS SHALL

ENTITLED TO MATERNITY LEAVE. HOWEVER,

LAW IS EMPLOYEE SILENT

IS HOW TO COUNT THE 26 WEEKS WHEN THE PREGNANT ON ABOUT TO TAKE MATERNITY LEAVE. WE PROPOSE TO REMOVE THIS AMBIGUITY BY

IN THE LAW THAT THE 26-WEEK SPECIFYING

PERIOD SHOULD BE COUNTED BACKWARD FROM THE EXPECTED DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF MATERNITY ΤΟ IMPROVE PROTECTION TO PREGNANT EMPLOYEES, WE ALSO PROPOSE TO

PAYMENT LATE

A OF MATERNITY LEAVE PAY AN OFFENCE LIABLE TO FINE OF $10,000.

LEAVE.

MAKE MAXIMUM

A

IS

BY

THE UNDER

IS EXISTING EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE, AN EMPLOYER THE PAY SICKNESS ALLOWANCE TO AN EMPLOYEE UNLESS

DAY OF LIABLE TO SICKNESS IS SPECIFIED IN AN APPROPRIATE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE ISSUED

BY HOWEVER, A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE ISSUED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.

DENTIST IS REGISTERED

NOT REGARDED AS AN APPROPRIATE MEDICAL AN CERTIFICATE.

EMPLOYEE HAVING ENCOUNTERED

INJURY A DENTAL

OR LEAVE RECEIVED A DENTAL SURGICAL OPERATION REQUIRING A FEW DAYS' SICK

IMPROVE THE AT PRESENT UNABLE TO RECEIVE SICKNESS ALLOWANCE. TO SITUATION,

ISSUED WE ALSO PROPOSE TO INCLUDE THE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE REGISTERED DENTIST A

THE AS A VALID DOCUMENT FOR

PURPOSE OF CLAIMING SICKNESS ALLOWANCE.

NOT

BY

A

-

EMPLOYEES RETRAINING (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994 INTRODUCED

* * *

FOLLOWING IS THE SPEECH BY THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR LAM WOON-KWONG, IN MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE EMPLOYEES RETRAINING (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994 IN THE LEGISLATIVE TODAY (WEDNESDAY);

COUNCIL

MR PRESIDENT,

I MOVE THE SECOND READING OF THE EMPLOYEES. (AMENDMENT) BILL. 1994.

RETRAINING

THIS BILL SEEKS TO INTRODUCE A NUMBER OF TECHNICAL THE EMPLOYEES RETRAINING ORDINANCE TO BRING IT IN LINK PRESENT NEED.

TO

/WHEN THE

AMENDMENTS

WITH

THE