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How to Offset Severance / Long Service Payment When Employee Is Terminated?
How to Offset Severance / Long Service Payment When Employee Is Terminated?
Under the Employment Ordinance, an employer can offset the Long Service Payment(“LSP”) or Severance Payment(“SP”) paid to an employee who is termin...
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Can Employers Deduct Salary from Sick Leave During the Outbreak of COVID-19?
Can Employers Deduct Salary from Sick Leave During the Outbreak of COVID-19?
In recent days, the severity of the COVID-19 is even worse than February, and more and more people are getting infected. The Chief Executive of the...
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Can Employees Get Compensation for Work-related Injuries if They Are Confirmed With Coronavirus at Work?
Can Employees Get Compensation for Work-related Injuries if They Are Confirmed With Coronavirus at Work?
Hong Kong has so far recorded thousands of confirmed coronavirus cases. However, The Employees’ Compensation Ordinance(ECO) does not specify whethe...
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What Is 12-Month Average Daily Wages (ADW)?
What Is 12-Month Average Daily Wages (ADW)?
The 12-month average daily rate (ADW) is very common when doing payroll, and while many HRs understand the concept of ADW, they don’t know how to a...
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As Layoffs Spread, How to Calculate Severance Payment or Long Service Payment to Employees?
As Layoffs Spread, How to Calculate Severance Payment or Long Service Payment to Employees?
“Layoffs” is nothing new, and the “wave of layoffs” is not only caused by the epidemic. In the past two years, there have been constantly happening...
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How to Choose a Payroll & HRM System?
How to Choose a Payroll & HRM System?
In recent years, more and more Hong Kong enterprises have gradually started using human resource management (HRM) systems to manage their work. Aft...
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Can an Employer Deduct Wages Because an Employee is Late for Work?
Can an Employer Deduct Wages Because an Employee is Late for Work?
As much as employers want their employees to be punctual, it’s still inevitable for some to come in late for work. It’s often difficult to ensure t...
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Is Year-End Bonus Mandatory?
Is Year-End Bonus Mandatory?
The question of whether companies should pay end-of-year bonuses to employees often confuses HRs. This article answers a few commonly asked questio...
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[HR 101] What’s the Minimum Wage?
[HR 101] What’s the Minimum Wage?
The Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) in Hong Kong has changed over the years. In 2019, starting from 1st of May, the SMW rate has been revised to HK$37...
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How to Calculate the Notice Period When Dismissing an Employee?
How to Calculate the Notice Period When Dismissing an Employee?
For a company, it is more complicated to dismiss an employee than to hire an employee if the contract does not expire. If you want to reasonably di...
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Grey Areas of Cash Pay Jobs
Grey Areas of Cash Pay Jobs
These days, I have talked with my friends and I found that many people would like to be freelancers or to choose (daily) cash pay jobs. They believ...
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Firing People is Harder Than Hiring People
Firing People is Harder Than Hiring People
“It’s hard to hire people, it’s harder to fire people.” For any company’s HR, dismissing an employee is tough. In recent years, there have been ma...
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