A Concise Guide to the Employment Ordinance

Foreword (60.6 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 1: Application of the Employment Ordinance (11.74 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 2: Contract of Employment (78.43 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 3: Wages (31.12 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 4: Rest Days, Holidays and Leave (109.49 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 5: Sickness Allowance (96.96 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 6: Maternity Protection (109.14 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 7: Paternity Leave (104.57 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 8: End of Year Payment (69.89 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 9: Termination of Contract of Employment (88.34 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 10: Employment Protection (93.08 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 11: Severance Payment and Long Service Payment (113.84 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 12: Protection against Anti-union Discrimination (11.66 KB) (PDF)
Chapter 13: Employers’ Criminal Liability in Failing to Pay an Award of the Labour Tribunal or Minor Employment Claims Adjudication Board (168.9 KB) (PDF)
Appendix 1: A Guide to the Calculation of Relevant Statutory Entitlements on the Basis of the 12-Month Average Wages with Examples (168.67 KB) (PDF)
Appendix 2: A Guide to the Abolition of Mandatory Provident Fund Offsetting Arrangement with Examples (181.26 KB) (PDF)
Appendix 3: Enquiries (63.87 KB) (PDF)

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【Information relating to sickness allowance】Employees’ entitlement to sickness allowance under the Employment Ordinance (EO) will not be affected after the launch of electronic medical certificates by the Hospital Authority. An employer who without reasonable excuse fails to pay sickness allowance to an eligible employee is subject to a fine of $50,000 upon conviction. For details on sickness allowance under EO, please refer to “Chapter 5: Sickness Allowance” above.

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Statutory Employment Entitlements Reference Calculator

The Statutory Employment Entitlements Reference Calculator programme is a simple tool to assist employers and employees to initially compute the statutory employment entitlements, including Annual Leave Pay, Statutory Holiday Pay, and Severance Payment / Long Service Payment, under the Employment Ordinance for reference.