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"Operators of employment agencies (EAs) are reminded to conduct their business in compliance with the law, or they may be subject to prosecution and risk having their licences revoked or not renewed," a spokesman for the Labour Department (LD) said today (April 29).
LD revoked the licence of an EA named Vicks Maid Consultant Company (located in Sha Tin) earlier upon the conviction of its licensee for overcharging a job-seeker and operating an EA at a place not specified in the licence. The licensee concerned subsequently appealed to the Administrative Appeals Board (AAB) but the appeal was recently dismissed by AAB.
"Under the Employment Ordinance, the Commissioner for Labour may refuse to issue or renew or may revoke a licence of an EA if the person operating or intending to operate an EA has contravened any provision of Part XII of the said Ordinance, or if he is considered not a fit and proper person to operate an EA," the spokesman said.
For enquiries or complaints about unlicensed operation or overcharging job-seekers' commission by EAs, please call the Employment Agencies Administration of the LD at 2115 3667, or visit its office at unit 906, 9/F, One Mong Kok Road Commercial Centre, 1 Mong Kok Raod, Kowloon.
Ends/Friday, April 29, 2016
Issued at HKT 16:49
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