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Toppan Forms (Hong Kong) Limited was fined $60,000 at the Fanling Magistrates' Courts today (June 20) for failing to pay statutory holiday pay to four employees within the statutory time limit under the Employment Ordinance. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.
During two inspections by labour inspectors in March this year, it was found that the company failed to give holiday pay of five statutory holidays to the four employees within the statutory time limit under the ordinance.
According to Section 40 of the Employment Ordinance, an employee having been employed under a continuous contract for not less than three months immediately preceding a statutory holiday is entitled to the holiday pay. Holiday pay should be paid to the employee not later than the day on which he is next paid his wages after that statutory holiday.
Any employer who fails to do so is liable to a maximum fine of $50,000.
Ends/Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Issued at HKT 18:11
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