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Passage and Allowance

Documents

Compensa- tion for Injury and Sickness Allowance

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Ching Ming Festival

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- Tuen Ng (Dragon Boat) Festival

The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

Chung Yeung Festival

Chinese Winter Solstice Festival or Christmas Day at the Employer's option Two "floating" holidays.

(a) The Employer shall provide the Helper with free passage and food from

to Hong Kong where the Contract is to be performed and on the expiry or, subject to Clause 12 hereof, termination, of the contract free return passage

and food from Hong Kong to

or, at the Helper's request, to his/her* place of origin if such place is nearer to Hong Kong. The Helper must be prepared in cither case to travel by sea or air as the Employer shall direct.

(b) A daily travelling allowance of

to the Helper from the date of his/her* departure from until the date of his/her* arrival at Hong Kong.

per day shall be paid.

(c) Should the Helper be unavoidably delayed in Hong Kong after the termination of his/her employment or expiry of his/her* contract, he/she* shall continue to receive his/her* wages and the Employer may use his/her* services until the day on which he/she* leaves Hong Kong. Commencing from the day of departure, he/she shall receive a travelling allowance of per day for the duration of the return journey, including

any delay incurred in the sea or air passage through no fault of the Helper. No allowance shall be payable in respect of any period by which the Helper of his/her own wish extends his/her* stay in Hong Kong.

8. All necessary documents shall be provided free of charge by or on behalf of the Employer to the Helper.

9. (a) In the event of the Helper suffering personal injury by accident or occupational disease arising out of and in the course of employment, the employer shall:-----

(i) defray the expenses necessarily incurred by the Helper on account of medical treatment, including maintenance in hospital, while he/she* is so incapacitated, (ii) pay or arrange with the appropriate authority for payment of compensation in accordance with the Hong Kong Employees' Compensation Ordinance, Chapter 282.

(b) When the Helper is ill or suffers from an accident not attributable to his/her* employment, the Employer shall provide free medical attention to the Helper while he/she is incapacitated. Sickness allowance shall be paid in accordance with the Employment Ordinance. Free medical attention includes emergency dental treatment.

(c) In the event of a medical practitioner certifying that in his opinion the Helper is unfit for further service with the Employer, the Employer shall immediately take steps to repatriate

the Helper and provide free food and return passage for the Helper to

or, at the Helper's request, to his/her* place of origin if such place is nearer

to Hong Kong.

Clothing

Food and Quarters

Termination

10. The Employer shall provide the Helper with summer and winter working clothes.

11. The Employer shall provide the Helper with free furnished accommodation with light and water supply and food or a food allowance of

per month/week.*

If food allowance is provided, the Employer shall provide a receipt for payment of food allowance and the Helper shall acknowledge receipt of the amount of allowance under his/her signature.

12. (a) In the event of either party wishing to terminate this Contract prior to the expiry of this Contract, the initiating party shall give in writing to the other party

month's/months'* notice or forfeit

month's/months** wages in lieu of notice. In the case of the former, both the Employer and the Helper shall within seven working days following notice of termination of the Contract inform the Director of Immigration and the Commissioner for Labour of the date of termination. In the case of the latter, the written notification should be made within one working day. In both cases, the Employer shall provide to the Director of Immigration a copy of the written advice of termination or notice of termination of the Contract given to the Helper.

* Delete where inappropriate.