A spokesman for the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau said today (28th) that since the outbreak of the fifth wave of COVID-19, the Government has received reports from outsourcing service contractors (including cleaning and property management services) that mainly employ unskilled workers , Due to the infection of employees, they have to undergo compulsory testing, isolation arrangements or quarantine, and they are worried that they will not be able to arrange enough manpower to fulfill the service requirements of the contract.
Therefore, the purchasing department will flexibly handle contract matters under this circumstance and suspend the implementation of some terms.
Purchasing departments will relax service requirements for contracts mainly employing unskilled workers in the next three months.
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No penalty or service charge deduction will be made to the contractor
A spokesman for the Treasury Bureau said that the procurement department will relax the service requirements of contracts that mainly employ unskilled workers in the next three months, and will discuss the actual service arrangements with relevant contractors according to the situation, so as not to seriously affect the public. In the case of services, assist the contractor to continue to perform its work.
The spokesman added that the procurement department will not impose fines or service fee deductions on service contractors due to absenteeism in relevant contracts that mainly employ unskilled workers.
And during the epidemic, the procurement department allows service contractors to deploy manpower more flexibly, such as cross-regional deployment.
▼On February 28, there was a panic buying trend in many supermarkets in Hong Kong▼
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