The Labour Department (LD) has cancelled the license of an employment agency that places foregn domestic helpers, for violations of the law and the Code of Practice for employment agencies (EAs).
Labour announced the revocation
of the EA license of JB Employment Agency (JB) in Kwun Tong – the first such cancellation for 2024 -- as it reminded EA operators that it was monitoring their
compliance.
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The LD said it revoked JB
Employment’s licence for failure to comply with the Code, including failing to
draw up service agreements with employers during provision of services; failing
to provide employers with receipts for service fees charged; failing to brief employers on the laws relevant to
employment of foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) and their rights and obligations;
failing to provide employers with guidebooks, leaflets, information pamphlets
and sample forms on the rights and benefits of FDHs; and failing to ask
employers to confirm in writing that they have received the signed originals of
standard employment contracts.
“Under section 53(1)(c)(iva) of the Employment
Ordinance (Cap. 57) (EO), the Commissioner for Labour (the Commissioner) may
revoke the licence of an EA if she is satisfied that the licensee concerned has
not complied with the Code,” LD said.
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"The Code sets out the salient legal
requirements that EA operators must observe in operating their business, as
well as the standards which the Commissioner expects from EA,” LD said.
“The EO stipulates that the
Commissioner may refuse to issue or renew a licence, or may revoke a licence,
if she is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the licensee or the person
intending to be the licensee of an EA, or a related person of or an individual
employed by the licensee or the person intending to be the licensee, has
contravened any provision of Part XII or any regulation made under section 62
of the EO, such as overcharging job seekers or operating an EA without a
licence, or has not complied with the Code issued under section 62A(1) of the
EO," the LD said.
It advised those who want to
ask about matters related to EAs or complain about suspected Code violations by
agencies, to contact the Employment Agencies Administration (telephone: 2115
3667; email: ea-ee@labour.gov.hk; address: Unit 906, 9/F, One Mong Kok Road
Commercial Centre, 1 Mong Kok Road, Kowloon).
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