Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) Director Wong Chi Hong pledged yesterday that the government will finish drafting a bill to amend the Labour Relations Law as soon as possible, in response to demands by the labour sector to make it compulsory that all employees have a day off in-lieu, when a particular statutory holiday falls on their weekly day off.
According to the Labour Relations Law, employees must be given one day off every week. Besides, there are 10 statutory holidays every year.
Wong made the comments yesterday when replying to an oral interpellation of indirectly-elected lawmaker-cum-unionist Lam Heong Sang during a plenary session of the legislature.
Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) Director Wong Chi Hong addresses yesterday’s plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle. Photo: Tony Wong
