An employer was prosecuted and fined HK$92,000 for failure to pay five of its employees’ wages, totalling around HK$322,000, in accordance with the Employment Ordinance (EO) on 31 August 2020.
Under Section 23 of the EO, an employer should pay wages to an employee when they become due and in any case not later than seven days after the end of the wage period, failing which could give rise to both criminal and civil liabilities.
A recent ruling held that the works council cannot require an employer to communicate with it in German, as long as the employer ensures that both sides can understand each other clearly.
Can the works council require an employer to only speak to it in German? Does the works council have a right to ‘simple’ communication with the employer? Can the works council impose its ideas about the ‘right’ company language on an employer? A […]
On September 3, 2020, the Ontario government extended the relief for employers from the temporary layoff provisions under the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) until January 2, 2021 in order to protect businesses from the costs of termination and severance pay, and to ensure that employees retain their positions while on a deemed infectious disease emergency leave.
Ontario’s ESA provides that a temporary layoff may not exceed 13 weeks in any period of 20 consecutive weeks, […]