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Miracle Time Enterprise Limited, trading as Tao Heung Restaurant was fined $30,000 at the Tsuen Wan Magistrates' Courts today (March 18) for dismissing an employee, injured at work, before a certificate of assessment was issued. The prosecution was taken out by the Labour Department.
The court heard that on March 28, 2007, a captain working in the restaurant sustained a head injury in a work accident. The employer dismissed the captain before a certificate of assessment was issued by the Employees' Compensation (Ordinary Assessment) Board.
According to section 48 of the Employees' Compensation Ordinance, an employer shall not, without the consent of the Commissioner for Labour, terminate the contract of employment of an employee who has suffered incapacity in circumstances which entitle him to compensation under the Ordinance before the issue of a certificate of assessment by the Employees' Compensation (Ordinary Assessment) Board.
Any employer who contravenes this provision is liable on conviction to a maximum fine of $100,000.
Ends/Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Issued at HKT 18:08
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