Hk Holidays For Domestic Helpers
However legally employers are not required to pay salary for the holiday until after the first 3 months of service.
Hk holidays for domestic helpers. In hong kong cantonese 女傭 maid and 外傭 foreign servant are neutral socially acceptable words for foreign domestic helpers. By hk resident on may 18 2017. You are not required to give your domestic helper general holidays public holidays.
Home forms visas guidebook for the employment of domestic helpers from abroad english version. For example if a domestic helper s official contract commencement date is 1 november 2017 this means that the domestic helper needs to go back to their home country for at least 7 days and re enter hong kong on or before 1 november 2018. 20 pages pdf file size.
Employers only need to give statutory holidays to domestic workers but we encourage you to give general holidays to your domestic worker. 1 statutory holidays are mandatory for all domestic helpers. Id c 969 is also available document size.
Guidebook for the employment of domestic helpers from abroad english version. There are 12 statutory holidays and 17 general holidays in hong kong. Hong kong celebrates 17 national holidays and 12 are statutory holidays.
Yes domestic helpers are entitled to statutory holidays regardless of their work duration. This is commonly referred to as the red calendar. Download form id e 969.
Statutory holidays are different from general holidays. In hong kong domestic helpers are entitled to the following leave statutory holidays 12 days in a year paid annual leave from 7 days to a maximum of 14 days based on the length of service rest days. Good friday easter saturday easter monday buddha s birthday and boxing day december 26.