Employer sanctioned for violating requirements under Enhanced Supplementary Labour Scheme

​The Labour Department (LD) today (October 29) announced the imposition of an administrative sanction on The Incorporated Owners of Nan Fung Industrial City. With immediate effect, the LD has terminated the processing of an application for importing labour previously submitted by the owners' corporation under the Enhanced Supplementary Labour Scheme (ESLS). In parallel, the LD will, from today, refuse to process any applications submitted by the owners' corporation under the ESLS for a period of one year. "After an investigation, the LD established that the above owners' corporation had breached the requirements under the ESLS by providing the LD with false information about the number of full-time local employees while applying for importation of labour under the ESLS. An administrative sanction is thus imposed," a spokesman for the LD said. The spokesman stressed, "Employers applying for the importation of workers under the ESLS should strictly comply with the scheme requirements, including according priority to employing suitable local workers. The ESLS stipulates that if an employer violates labour or immigration laws, the requirements of the ESLS, or the Standard Employment Co

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