Hong Kong Outsourcing newsletter

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June 2024 - Launch of eMPF Platform

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The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (“MPFA”) announced that the eMPF Platform will be launched on 26 June 2024. The platform will automate administrative tasks and reduce costs.

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January 2024 - Increase of Statutory Holiday in Hong Kong in 2024

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Starting from 2024, an additional statutory holiday is added under the Employment Ordinance (“EO”).

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April 2023 - Repeal of provisions relating to COVID-19 vaccination under Employment Ordinance

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The Labour Department announced on 12 April 2023 that the provisions related to legitimate COVID-19 vaccination requests under Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2022 will be repealed on 16 June 2023.

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June 2022 - Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2022: Sickness allowance and employment protection under anti-epidemic measures

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The Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2022 came into operation on 17 June 2022. The Amendment Ordinance has strengthened the protection of the rights and benefits of employees when they are absent from work due to their compliance with specific anti-epidemic requirements. We have summarized the major amendments for your information.

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June 2022 - Employment and Retirement Schemes Legislation (Offsetting Arrangement) (Amendment) Bill 2022

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The Government has passed the Employment and Retirement Schemes Legislation (Offsetting Arrangement) (Amendment) Bill 2022 (The Amendment Bill) on 9 June 2022. Employers will no longer be able to offset any severance payment (SP) or long service payment (LSP) payable to employee against the accrued benefits of employer mandatory contributions under the Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) scheme. The abolition of the offsetting arrangement also applies to occupational retirement schemes (ORSO) under the Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance.

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April 2022 - COVID-19 – Hong Kong Employment Support Scheme 2022: Application method and penalty mechanism

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The Government announced the details on application and penalty mechanism for the Employment Support Scheme (“ESS”) 2022. It will open for online application on 29 April 2022.

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April 2022 - COVID-19 – Improvement on relaunch of Hong Kong Employment Support Scheme

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Following our previous newsletter, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Mrs Carrie Lam announced six improvement measures on the relaunch of Employment Support Scheme (“ESS”) on 7 April 2022.

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March 2022 - COVID-19 – Hong Kong relaunch Employment Support Scheme

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Mrs Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of Hong Kong announced the relaunch of the Employment Support Scheme (“ESS”) on 18 March 2022. New round of ESS of HK$31 billion will subsidise employers who are affected by Hong Kong’s fifth wave of COVID-19.

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July 2021 - Increase in Statutory Holidays in Hong Kong

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The proposed Employment (Amendment) Bill 2021 for increasing progressively the number of statutory holidays in Hong Kong from the current 12 to 17 days was passed by the Legislative Council on 7 July 2021.

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April 2021 - Reimbursement of Maternity Leave Pay Scheme

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