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Kwong Lam Garden Limited has been fined $24,000 at the Fanling Magistrates' Courts for failing to pay statutory holiday pay to two employees within the statutory time limit under the Employment Ordinance.
During an inspection by labour inspectors of the Labour Department in May this year, it was found that the company failed to give holiday pay of four statutory holidays to the two employees within the statutory time limit under the ordinance. The Labour Department, therefore, launched prosecution against the company.
The four statutory holidays were the first day of January, the day preceding Lunar New Year's Day, the second day and the third day of the Lunar New Year.
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/Saturday, October 28, 2006
Issued at HKT 11:00
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