Labour Department - What's New

	Work Incentive Transport Subsidy Scheme The Scheme is open for applications from October 2011...

Statutory Minimum Wage The Statutory Minimum Wage comes into force on 1 May 2011 and the initial Statutory Minimum Wage rate is $28 per hour ...

	Minimum Wage Reference Calculator Facilitating employers and employees in computing minimum wage ...

Construction Industry Safety Award Scheme 2011/2012 The answers and results of Safety Quiz Competition (Chinese version only) ...

	Construction Industry Safety Award Scheme 2011/2012 The enrollment period for the site safety competition of the “Construction Industry Safety Award Scheme 2011/2012” was ended on 25 October 2011. Assessment is now in progress ...

Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2010 The Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2010 has come into operation on 29 October 2010. Under the ordinance, an employer who wilfully and without reasonable excuse fails to pay any sum awarded by the Labour Tribunal or Minor Employment Claims Adjudication Board is liable to prosecution.....

+	Work Incentive Transport Subsidy Scheme
+	Work Safety Alert
+	Statutory Minimum Wage
+	Minimum Wage Reference Calculator
+	Pilot Employment Navigator Programme
+	Employment Programme for the Middle-aged

+	Employers Must Take out Employees’ Compensation Insurance
+	Latest Labour Market Situation
+	Statutory Holidays for 2012
+	Statutory Holidays for 2011
+	Monthly Highlight of Job Seekers with Disabilities
+	Prepare Work Arrangements in times of Typhoons and Rainstorms Promptly (PDF)
+	Guidelines for Notification of Your Workplace (Notification Form)(PDF)
+	Lists of Typical Courses in Occupational Safety and Health accepted as Continuing Professional Development Programmes

+	Labour Department Environmental Report for 2010
+	Labour Department Annual Report 2010
+	Guidance Notes on Continuing Professional Development Programmes under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Officers and Safety Supervisors) Regulations (PDF)
+	Good People Management and Family-friendly Employment Practices (PDF)
+	A Concise Guide to the Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2010 (PDF)

Occupational Health Talk (conducted in Chinese)
+	2.2012 (PDF)
+	3.2012 (PDF)

+	Commencement of the Second Phase Certification Requirement of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Loadshifting Machinery) Regulation
+	Major Amendments to the Employment Ordinance made under the Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2010
+	Amendments to Levels of Compensation under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance
+	Amendments under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance to recognise certification given by Chinese medicine practitioners
+	Summary of Major Amendments made under the Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) (Amendment) Ordinance 2008
+	Summary of Major Amendments to the Employment Ordinance made under the Certification for Employee Benefits (Chinese Medicine)(Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2006 (PDF)
+	Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Loadshifting Machinery) Regulation
+	The maximum penalty for wage offences has been raised
+	The Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Gas Welding and Flame Cutting) Regulation has come into full operation on 1 March 2004
+	Amendments to the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations and three other regulations