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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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• Minimum Wage Ordinance
  The Minimum Wage Ordinance, which was passed by the Legislative Council on 17 July 2010, was gazetted on 23 July 2010. The Ordinance will come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare by notice published in the Gazette...
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• Amendments to Levels of Compensation under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance
  The amounts of five compensation items under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance have been raised from 1 August 2010.....
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• Catering Industry Safety Award Scheme (2010/2011)
  The Labour Department and key stakeholders of the industry have been jointly organising the Catering Industry Safety Award Scheme since 1999 with the objectives of fostering an occupational safety and health culture and promoting safe work practices in the industry...
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• Catering Industry Safety Award Scheme (2010/2011) - Safety Quiz Competition
  This information is only provided with Chinese version. To get information in English, please contact us at 2852 3565...
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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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• Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2010
  The Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2010 was gazetted on 7 May 2010. Under the ordinance, an employer who wilfully and without reasonable excuse fails to pay any sum awarded by the Labour Tribunal and Minor Employment Claims Adjudication Board is liable to prosecution. The Government has gazetted the commencement notice of the amendment ordinance. The ordinance will come into operation on 29 October 2010...
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• Checklist for Risk Assessment of Outdoor Work under High Air Pollution Levels
  Records show that Hong Kong experiences a number of high air pollution incidents every year when the General Air Pollution Index (API) reaches the "Very High" level...
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• Family-Friendly Employment Practices
  The Labour Department has produced a video on Family-Friendly Employment Practices (FFEPs) to let members of the public know how an enterprise, through implementing these employee-oriented good people management practices, can help their employees balance their work and family responsibilities...
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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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Topical Issues

• Employment Programme for the Middle-aged
  
  
• Prevention of Heat Stroke at Work

Useful Information

• Watch out for Impostors
• Latest Labour Market Situation

• Statutory Holidays for 2011
  
  
• 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 2008
  
  
• 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)

• 10.2010 (PDF)
• 9.2010 (PDF)

Latest Amendments to Labour Laws

• 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 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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