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of wor

workers against employers moving

operation

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of Hong King

Reply by

80 questi

czątązy for Education and Manpower-

the Zoo Zilton CazZONG LZEN

-in the Legislative Council on 8 June 1983

5. MR. CHEONG-LEEN asked :

inform

this Council

moved

Will Government whether it has received complaints that Some factory owners have

their operation out of Hong Kong without paying wages due

their workers, what remedies are available to these employees; and

what

to

measures

will

Government

take

to

protect workers from similar incidents in the future?

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER :

sir,

presume

that Mr. CHEONG-LEEN's question

has been prompted by the much publicised case of the

Qualimax plastics factory, the owners of which are

alleged to have moved their factory out

factory out of Hong Kong

leaving a liability of about $660,000 in 'unpaid wages

and severance pay due to their 56 workers.

This case

is now being investigated by

investigated by the Official Receiver's

Office.

Meanwhile the workers have already received

payments totalling some $255,000

from

sc

Protection of Wages on the Fasolvency at

彪

My Stic fund.

Fortunately, this case is not typical and

we have received no other complaints involving

comparable allegations. In the first five months Of

this year

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the Labour Department's

conciliation

fficers helped in 49 cases arising from factories