Employment at Hong Kong Limited

Within the period specified in the employment contract. Warning: No imported worker in Hong Kong may accept unapproved full-time or part-time work.  Hong Kong limited Offenders may be fined and jailed.  They may also be removed from Hong Kong and never allowed to return. If your employer asks you to work for another person or, in the case of a foreign domestic helper, to perform non-domestic duties, you should not do this.  This is illegal, and both you and your employer will be punished when you are caught.  The only work you are allowed to do Hong Kong limited is the work stated in your contract.  If your employer insists that you do any other work, tell the Investigation Division of the Immigration Department.

Your basic employment benefits and rights as a foreign domestic helper are specified in your employment contract.  There is only one standard official employment contract for all foreign domestic helpers (regardless of nationality) in Hong Kong, which is available at the Foreign Domestic Helpers Section of the Immigration Department or can be downloaded from www.immd.gov.hk. For more information about your Hong Kong limited statutory employment rights and benefits, get a free copy of “A Concise Guide to the Employment Ordinance”, “Practical Guide for Employment of Foreign Domestic Helpers – What Foreign Domestic Helpers and Their Employers Should Know” and “A Concise Guide to the Employees’ Compensation Ordinance” from the Labour Department or visit www.labour.gov.hk.

All foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong, regardless of nationality, should receive wages as stated in the standard employment contract, which should not be less than the minimum allowable wage (MAW) as set by the Government.  For any standard employment contract made on or after 10 July 2008, the prescribed MAW is HK$3,580 per month.  An employer who underpays wages commits an offence under the Employment Ordinance and is liable to a maximum fine of HK$350,000 and 3 years’ imprisonment.  It is also an offence under the Immigration Ordinance to make false representation to an Immigration Officer.

If you are entitled to any payments and your employer refuses to pay you, you should file your claims at the Labour Department.  When you approach the Immigration Department concerning your stay in Hong Kong, you may produce the documents given by the Labour Department to show Hong Kong limitedthat you have a claim being dealt with by the Labour Department. Please note that the Immigration Department does not allow a foreign Hong Kong limited domestic helper whose contract has been terminated to take up employment unless otherwise approved by Director of Immigration while she/he is pursuing a labour claim.

Once your employer has enrolled you in a MPF scheme, a membership certificate from the MPF trustee will be issued to you.  You have the right to choose among the constituent funds offered under the scheme. Mandatory contributions are calculated on the basis of 5% of an employee’s Hong Kong limited relevant income, with the employer also contributing 5%.  An employee’s mandatory contributions are subject to minimum and maximum relevant income levels, while an employer’s mandatory contributions are subject to a maximum relevant income level.

Self-employed persons also have to contribute 5% of their relevant income, subject to the minimum and maximum levels of their relevant income. Once your employer Hong Kong limited remits your contributions and his contributions for you to the scheme trustees, the mandatory part of the contributions will be fully and immediately vested in you.  You may withdraw the lump sum benefits in your MPF scheme when you attain the retirement age of 65, or under other special conditions such as early retirement at 60 or permanently departing from Hong Kong.

Hong Kong.  Apart from helping school leavers and working adults in acquiring values, knowledge and skills for lifelong learning and enhanced employability, the VTC also provides valued supports to industries for their manpower development. Through its major member institutions comprising the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education and Hong Kong Design Institute, School of Business and Information Systems , Youth College provides Hong Kong limited a comprehensive range of full-time and part-time vocational education and training programmes leading to internationally recognised qualifications from certificate and diploma to degree levels to over 160,000 learners each year.