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(b)

Section 32 of the Employment Ordinance restricts deductions from wages. No deductions may be made by an employer from the wages of his employee except for:

absence from work

from work not the period of absence time basis;

exceeding a sum proportionate to if the employee is employed on a

damage, to or loss of the employer's goods, equipment, or property subject to a limit of HK$300 and other conditions;

food and accommodation supplied by the employer;

the recovery of any advance or over-payment of wages or loans made by the employer to the employee;

contributions paid for

for the purposes of various schemes lawfully established for the benefit of the employee or his dependants;

those required or authorised under any enactment; and

other deductions with the approval of the Commissioner for Labour.

Except with the approval

the approval in writing of the Commissioner for Labour, the total of all deductions, excluding those for absence from work, made in any one wage period must not exceed one half of the wages payable for that period.

(c)

When supplies and services form part of the benefits received by employees, the cash wages themselves are always calculated separately, and there is no question of excessive deduction from wages for such benefits. Subsidised meals are provided in some large industrial establishments, but as already mentioned, there is no compulsion to take

them.

Article 16

1.

Section 32(2)(e) of the Employment Ordinance permits an employer to deduct from the wages of his employee sums for the recovery of any advance of wages made by the employer to the employee provided that:

(i)

Section

except with the approval in writing of the Commissioner, no such deductions shall be made by way of discount, interest or any similar charge in consideration of such advance; and,

(ii) the

the total of such deductions in any one wage period shall not exceed one quarter of

of the wages payable to the employee in respect of that wage period.

5(2)(e) of the

the Contracts for

for Employment Outside Hong Kong Ordinance stipulates that any contract of employment to which the ordinance applies shall contain

contain particulars governing the advances of wages, if any, and the manner of repayment of any such advance.

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provisions.

There is no legislation in Hong Kong to give effect to these

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