Law Chi-guang recalls a number of amendments, saying that the term of the current government will come to an end, but labor protection will not come to an end

The term of the current government is coming to an end, and the Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong today (19th) reviewed the labor protection during his tenure in his blog, describing the relevant work as a semicolon ";" instead of a full stop ".".

He pointed out that in the early days of taking office, he said that Hong Kong's labor protection legislation is relatively backward compared to developed regions, so government policies should be biased towards labor. So far, he believes that "the current government's legislative work on labor protection is more or less, and it is biased. Labor is still biased towards the business world, depending on which side you stand on.”

The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Law Chi-kwong, reviewed the labor security in his blog, and described the relevant work as only ushering in a semicolon ";" rather than a full stop ".".

(File photo / Photo by Liang Pengwei)

Law mentioned in the article that the seven amendments to the Employment Ordinance may be a record, including strengthening the employment protection of employees who are unreasonably and unlawfully dismissed; increasing the statutory paternity leave from three days to five days; increasing the statutory maternity leave Increase from 10 to 14 weeks, revise the definition of "miscarriage", and entitle to sickness allowance for antenatal examinations; gradually increase the number of statutory holidays each year from 12 to 17 days, in line with the number of public holidays; Cancellation of MPF "hedging", etc.

Other completed amendments include expanding employees' compensation protection to cover accidental injury or death during commuting to and from get off work under "extreme circumstances", and amending the Protection of Wages on Insolvency Ordinance to increase the special benefits of various broken funds Maximum payment amount.

The authorities also tabled the Occupational Safety and Occupational Health Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2022 into the Legislative Council last month, with the aim of raising the maximum penalty for employers and employees' violations of occupational safety and health and further enhancing occupational safety and health.

He pointed out that the bill has been submitted to the Bills Committee of the Legislative Council for deliberation, and it will take the next government to complete the relevant legislative work.

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As for the amendment to the labor protection legislation after the semicolon, he pointed out that the drafting of the legislative proposal to abolish the MPF "hedging" has been largely completed. The legislative amendments to the Site (Safety) Regulations are also in preparation and are expected to be completed in the early stage of the next government; and the policy related to the Employment Ordinance is being studied in the early stage, that is, to review the definition of continuous employment in the Employment Ordinance, Commonly known as the "4-18" arrangement, when the research is completed, the Labour Advisory Committee will be consulted, and if there is progress, it will be submitted to the Legislative Council for discussion.

At the end of the month, 93% of the residents in Luo Zhiguang had taken the first injection of the institutional manpower challenge. The unemployment rate of Luo Zhiguang at the end of the year fell below 4%. In the autumn, the sixth wave: the negative impact will be lessened than in February and March. ｜Law Chi-kwong points out that employee salary accounts for 1/3 of the impact on employers’ operations compared with this year’s inflation. Residential homes exploded. Contracts for over 1,000 temporary care workers have expired. Light: Need to "wait for burial" to cancel the hedging plan