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Highlights

• Labour in Focus
  Various labour affairs will be highlighted in this new column to enhance understanding on the work of the Labour Department and to strengthen people's knowledge of different labour issues...
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• OccupationaI HeaIth of Workers in Pre-primary Education Institutions
  The day-to-day work of teachers and staff at preprimaγ education institutions, including kindergartens and child care centres, is very heavy. Employers of such institutions should adopt appropriate precautionary measures to prevent health hazards at work...
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• "Internship Programme for University Graduates"
  The deadline of the Programme for accepting applications from eligible graduates for internship positions will fall on 31 March 2010. Interested graduates and enterprises are encouraged to join as soon as possible...
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• Safety Quiz Competition
  The enrolment period for the Safety Quiz Competition of the Construction Industry Safety Award Scheme 2009/2010 was ended on 15 December 2009. Assessment is now in progress...
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• Construction Industry Safety Award Scheme 2009/2010
  The Construction Industry Safety Award Scheme 2009/2010 Award Presentation Ceremony cum Fun Day will be held on 21 March 2010. All people are welcome to join...
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• Work Orientation and Placement Scheme
  Employers who employ disabled persons under the scheme can receive a financial incentive up to HK$4,000 per month and the subsidy period can be up to six months...
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• Customer Service Teams Project
  The Labour Department and the Social Welfare Department jointly organise the Customer Service Teams Project with the objective of promoting occupational safety and health to catering establishments and small and medium-sized enterprises through the assistance of recruited volunteers...
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• Guidelines for Employers and Employees - Prevention of Human Swine Influenza (Influenza A H1N1)
  As a healthy and safe workplace is in the interests of both employers and employees, it is of utmost importance that they should be vigilant in guarding against the spread of Human Swine Influenza (Influenza A H1N1) in workplaces...
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• New Amendments made to the Employees' Compensation Ordinance
  Amendments made to the Employees' Compensation Ordinance to recognise registered Chinese medicine practitioners have come into operation on 1 September 2008. The amendments are applicable to work injuries caused by accidents happening on or after 1 September 2008...
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• Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) (Amendment) Ordinance 2008
  Amendments under the Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) (Amendment) Ordinance 2008 to make cancerous mesothelioma a compensable disease took effect on 18 April 2008...
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Topical Issues

• Employment Programme for the Middle-aged
  
  
• Offering internship positions to university graduates
  
  
• Prevention of Occupational Diseases

Useful Information

• Watch out for Impostors
• Latest Labour Market Situation

• Statutory Holidays for 2009
  
  
• Statutory Holidays for 2010
  
  
• Monthly Highlight of Disabled Job Seekers

• Prepare Work Arrangements in times of Typhoons and Rainstorms Promptly (PDF)
  
  
• Guidelines for Notification of Your Workplace (Notification Form)(PDF)
  

Publications

• Labour Department Environmental Report for 2007
• Labour Department Annual Report 2007
  
  
• Concerted Effort for Better Protection-Points to Note for Employers of the Construction Industry (PDF) (C)
  
  
• Concerted Effort for Better Protection-Points to Note for Employees of the Construction Industry (PDF) (C)
  
  
• A Concise Guide to the Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2007 (PDF)
  
  
• Good People Management and Family-friendly Employment Practices (PDF)
  
  
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Other Activities

Occupational Health Talks (conducted in Chinese)

• 4.2010 (PDF)
• 3.2010 (PDF)

Latest Amendments to Labour Laws

• 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 Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2007 (PDF)
  
  
• 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
  
  
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