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Labour Officer (Prosecutions), Mrs Tonia Leung, said under the Employment Ordinance, all employees, irrespective of their wage levels, were entitled to statutory holidays and had to be paid for the day off if they had worked continuously for the same employer for three months or longer immediately before the statutory holiday.

"Holiday pay should be equivalent to an employee's earnings on a full working day. Where the earnings vary from day to day, holiday pay should be the average daily earnings during every complete wage period, comprising not less than 28 days and not more than 31 days preceding the holiday," she explained.

"If an employee is required to work on a statutory holiday, he must be given an alternative day off within 60 days before or after that day," Mrs Leung added.

Any employer who fails to grant statutory leave to an employee is liable to a maximum fine of $10,000.

End/Saturday, June 17, 1995

Young violinist to attend international music camp

An 18-year-old violin player, Cheng Ka-ming, who has been selected by the Music Office of the Recreation and Culture Branch to represent Hong Kong to attend the 1995 World Youth Symphony Orchestra Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, USA. this summer, will leave Hong Kong on June 23 (Friday).

Cheng has made remarkable achievements in music in the past few years. He was the Champion in Violin Sonata Class and Violin Concerto Class in the 1992 Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, the first runner-up in the 1993 Commercial Radio Prize. and the 1993 Student Musician of the Year organised by South China Morning Post.

Currently, he is the concertmaster of the Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra and the La Salle College School Orchestra.

"It is really exciting that I can have the opportunity to participate in the Interlochen Arts Camp and to meet young musicians from different countries in the coming two months," he said.