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Question No. 2

Conditions of service

for subsidized school teachers

Reply by the Hon R G B Bridge, OBE, JP Secretary for Education & Manpower to a Question by the Hon Szeto Wah in the Legislative Council on 11 May 1988

2. MR. SZETO asked (in Cantonese):

Question The Education Department has recently introduced two changes to the conditions of service of subsidized school teachers concerning : : (1) the payment of compensation for resignation without sufficient notice; and (2) the calculation of maternity leave for female teachers. Will Government inform this Council whether the teachers' union

union and schools councils concerned have been consulted about these changes, and whether amendments have to be made to the contracts of all subsidiged school teachers as a result of introducing these two changes ?

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Answer

Answer:

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:

Sir,

Under the provisions of the Employment Ordinance,

an employee may terminate his contract of employment without

notice by paying the employer an amount equal to the

employee's wages during the period of notice specified in

the contract. In the case of aided school teachers, the

Codes of Kid provide for a teacher who resigns without

notice to pay back one month's salary. If a teacher, after

giving proper notice, thereafter terminates

terminates the contract,

he should pay the

the Employment Ordinance provides that

employer an amount proportional to the unexpired period of

notice.

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