Labour Department

Call for more scrutiny of Hong Kong job agencies

19 Dec 2012

More power should be given to the Labour Department so it can monitor employment agencies more closely, a welfare group has suggested, as unions said scams involving foreign domestic helpers had...

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City Digest, December 12, 2012

12 Dec 2012

Coroner adjourns inquest into girl's death

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Staff angry as death blunder beauty chain allegedly closes 30 shops

6 Dec 2012

Only one in four outlets of an embattled beauty chain remains in operation after a treatment blunder that left one woman dead and three others in hospital, a trade unionist said yesterday.

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Hong Kong needs standard working hours

28 Nov 2012

The long-awaited Labour Department report on standard working hours is a hefty 344 pages. It provides a wealth of information about the experience of a dozen countries and offers 27 scenarios for...

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Standard working hours could cost employers HK$55b

27 Nov 2012

Employers will need to pay out up to HK$55.2 billion more a year in wages if standard working hours are introduced in Hong Kong, a long-awaited government report says.

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Labour Department probes HKU over air-quality complaints at new campus

23 Aug 2012

The Labour Department is investigating whether University of Hong Kong violated workplace safety regulations after high formaldehyde levels in new office furniture was blamed for making numerous...

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Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

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Pilot programme to help unemployed find work

The Labour Department is launching a programme today to help the jobless find work. The two-year Pilot Employment Navigator Programme is to provide 22,000 job-seekers with job counselling and...

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Ocean Park catering programme gives graduates a new direction

Graduates of a theme park's catering trainee programme said they used to be clueless about their future, but have found direction from the scheme. They were speaking as the second class of...

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Occupational safety is important

I am sure you have all heard about the accident at ICC which left six workers dead. I was shocked by the tragedy.

It reminded me of other industrial accidents which have cost many...

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Woman dies as ironing machine catches hair

An 18-year-old woman described as 'a very good sister' died after her hair got caught between the rollers of a commercial ironing machine in a Tuen Mun laundry yesterday.

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Worker killed in fall from scaffolding

A worker, 59, died after falling from scaffolding outside a fifth-floor flat in North Point yesterday. The man, surnamed Ching, was working on an outer wall when the accident happened at 3....

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In Brief

Labour Department in health and safety drive

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