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Victoria Manor Development Limited, trading as Gold Star Entertainment Games Centre, was fined $10,400 at the Tsuen Wan Magistrates' Courts today (November 22) for failing to grant statutory holidays to four employees within the statutory time limit under the Employment Ordinance. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.
The company failed to grant the statutory holidays of the Tuen Ng Festival and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day to four employees.
Under the Employment Ordinance, all employees, irrespective of their length of service, are entitled to 12 statutory holidays a year.
According to Section 39 of the ordinance, if an employee is required to work on a statutory holiday, his employer must arrange an alternative holiday within the 60 days before or after the statutory holiday. Any employer who fails to grant statutory holidays or fails to pay holiday pay, is liable to a maximum fine of $50,000.
The Labour Department urged employees who are owed wages or being deprived of statutory rights to call its complaint hotline, 2815 2200 immediately.
Ends/Thursday, November 22, 2007
Issued at HKT 18:36
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