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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 (April 22) pursued 12 claims in the Small Claims Tribunal for about $150,000 on behalf of 27 employees, who were owed MPF contributions by their employers.
Three defendants, Kwok Wing Keung trading as Hang Mei Screen Printing Co, Spi Marketing Limited and Top Dragon Manufacturing Company Limited, did not dispute the amounts claimed. The Adjudicator ordered them to pay the MPFA $43,138.87, $20,120.02 and $8,400 respectively, being mandatory contributions in arrears and surcharges payable.
The other nine defendants, Pegasus International Travel Limited, Fortune Mind Transportation Co. Limited, Tsang Tak Ping trading as Tsang Tak Kee Vegetable, King Success International Holdings Ltd, He Sen Group (Hong Kong) Limited, Universal Investment Enterprises Limited trading as Apple Snooker Club, Li Chi Leung trading as Lee Sze Kee Metal Engineering, Lai Ata Textiles Co Limited and Onkyo (E&M) Engineering Limited, did not appear. In their absence, the Adjudicator ordered them to pay the MPFA $29,004.58, $14,484.12, $7,980, $7,666.88, $6,037.50, $5,321.41, $4,145.46, $3,727.54 and $628, 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 the respective defendants to pay costs of $209, $120, $115, $202, $166, $139, $90, $159, $170, $220, $96 and $146.
Pegasus International Travel Limited was previously fined $12,000 in Kwun Tong Magistrates' Courts for failing to enrol an employee in an MPF scheme.
Ends/Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Issued at HKT 18:21
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