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Labour Department to offer assistance to fire victims.
The Commissioner for Labour, Miss Jacqueline Willis, expressed her deep concern and condolences to the families of the deceased in the No. 5 Alarm fire in Tsim Sha Tsui.
The Labour Department has set up a hotline to answer enquiries on employees' compensation matters from relatives and friends of those employees who were injured or killed in the fire.
The hotline number is 2852 4036 and operates from 9 am to 5.30 pm.
Two teams of labour officers from the Employees' Compensation Division went to Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Kwong Wah Hospital this (Thursday) morning to offer assistance to relatives of the deceased employees and other employees who were injured in the fire.
Under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance, injured employees and dependants of deceased employees are entitled to employees' compensation.
The maximum amount of compensation for an employee who is killed in a work related accident is $1,512,000 or 84 months' pay and for those suffering permanent incapacity is $1,728,000 or 96 months' pay whichever is the less.
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JLG reaches agreement on HK-Japan Air Services Agreement
The British and Chinese sides of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group (JLG) reached agreement on the initialled text of the Air Services Agreement between Hong Kong and Japan on November 20, 1996.
The two sides agree that the Hong Kong Government shall under due authorisation formally sign the agreement with its Japanese counterpart.
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