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Rich Engineering Limited was fined $45,000 at the Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts today (April 24) for failing to pay periodical payments in accordance with requirements of the Employees' Compensation Ordinance. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.
The employer failed to pay periodical payments to an employee on the normal pay days or within seven days thereafter as required by the ordinance. The amount of periodical payments involved was over $100,000.
Section 10 of the ordinance stipulates that during the period of temporary incapacity, the employer must pay the injured employee periodical payments at the rate of four-fifths of the difference between the employee's monthly earnings at the time of the accident and his monthly earnings during the period of temporary incapacity.
The periodical payments are payable on the injured employee's normal pay days. An employer who, without reasonable excuse, fails to pay within seven days after the due day commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $100,000.
Ends/Monday, April 24, 2006
Issued at HKT 19:12
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