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When Will an Employee Be Entitled to Severance & Long Service Pay
When Will an Employee Be Entitled to Severance & Long Service Pay
Under what circumstances should an employer pay his employee severance payment? How to calculate severance payment and long service payment? These ...
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How to Calculate the Prorated Pay for a Terminated Employee?
How to Calculate the Prorated Pay for a Terminated Employee?
There are lots of reasons why employees choose to leave their jobs. The relationship between employees and the company has already changed from the...
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How to Layoff Emplyees in Compliance with Employment Ordinance?
How to Layoff Emplyees in Compliance with Employment Ordinance?
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on Hong Kong’s economy, “redundancies and closures” are no longer new to us. The Census and Stati...
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How to Legally Terminate Employees When the Business Is Slumping?
How to Legally Terminate Employees When the Business Is Slumping?
Recently, I saw a post on the Internet, saying as the outbreak of the COVID-19, a business owner in a small-sized company was seriously affected by...
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How to Calculate Annual Leave Payment on Termination of Employment Contract?
How to Calculate Annual Leave Payment on Termination of Employment Contract?
Mr. Cheung worked in a logistics company for several years and recently wanted to change jobs. He told his employer about his resignation in the le...
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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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[Restaurant Owners] Right Way to Lay Off Employees
[Restaurant Owners] Right Way to Lay Off Employees
As COVID-19 persists, businesses around the world remain partly operational. Restaurants in particular were very affected by the pandemic, opting t...
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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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Which Form to Submit to IRD When an Employee Who Is About to Cease to Be Employed?
Which Form to Submit to IRD When an Employee Who Is About to Cease to Be Employed?
When an employee ceases to be employed, an employer has to file one copy of IR56F or via Electronic Filing of Employer’s Return one month before th...
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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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[Laying off People], You May End up in a Lawsuit If You Don’t Pay Attention to These 5 Tips
[Laying off People], You May End up in a Lawsuit If You Don’t Pay Attention to These 5 Tips
It’s hard to hire, but it’s even harder to fire. For HR professionals, employment termination is way more complicated than staff recruitment if the...
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