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The following is issued on behalf of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority:
The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA) today (September 14) pursued six claims in the Small Claims Tribunal for some $110,000 on behalf of seven employees, who were owed MPF contributions by their employers.
Five defendants - Hin Sum Manpower Company Limited, Lodco Engineering Service Company Limited, Uni-Pac Real Estate Consultants (Retail) Limited, Welfact Company Limited and Wong Ho trading as Fook Shing Hong Arts Company - did not dispute the amounts claimed. The Adjudicator ordered them to pay the MPFA $48,720, $24,520.18, $12,621.12, $8,511.28 and $7,258.38 respectively, being mandatory contributions in arrears and surcharges payable.
The other defendant, Soonbase Industrial Limited, did not appear at today's hearing. In its absence, the Adjudicator ordered it to pay the MPFA $14,885.52, being mandatory contributions in arrears and surcharges payable.
The amounts awarded will be reimbursed to the employees' MPF accounts as soon as they are received by the MPFA. The tribunal further ordered defendants to pay $160, $146, $166, $106, $150 and $80 respectively as costs in respect of the claims.
Hin Sum Manpower Company Limited earlier pleaded guilty at Kwun Tong Magistracy to 30 counts of failing to make MPF contributions on time and was fined $84,500.
Ends/Friday, September 14, 2007
Issued at HKT 17:26
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