Company director sentenced to community service order for contravening Employment Ordinance

​A director of Grace (Asia) Group Limited and CY Medical Aesthetics Limited was prosecuted by the Labour Department (LD) for violating the requirements under the Employment Ordinance (EO). The director was convicted earlier and was sentenced at the Fanling Magistrates' Courts today (September 4) to 120 hours' community service. The director was also ordered earlier to pay the employees concerned an outstanding total sum of about $93,000. The companies wilfully and without reasonable excuse contravened the requirements of the EO, failing to pay three employees' wages within seven days after the expiry of the wage periods and termination of employment contracts, totalling about $93,000. The director concerned was prosecuted and convicted for her consent, connivance or neglect in the above offence. "The ruling will disseminate a strong message to all employers, directors and responsible officers of companies that they have to pay wages to employees within the statutory time limit stipulated in the EO," a spokesman for the LD said. "The LD will not tolerate these offences and will spare no effort in enforcing the law and safeguarding employees' statutory rights," the spokesman added.