Hundreds of residents yesterday protested against the government’s proposal that a company can arrange for its employees to take up to three out of four mandatory holidays (New Year’s Day, Ching Ming Festival, the day following the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Chung Yeung Festival) on three other days of the city’s various non-mandatory holidays, without the need to give the employees extra pay, based on mutual agreement.
The demonstration was organised by an ad-hoc group opposing the proposal called “Wage Earners Alliance”.
The protestors started the demonstration in Vasco da Gama Garden at around 4 p.m.
Protestors march in Rua do Campo during yesterday’s demonstration against the government’s “Choose 3 among 4” proposal. Photos: Tony Wong
One of the organisers of the “Wage Earners Alliance”, Ng Kim Ip (third from left), hands a petition against the government’s new mandatory holiday arrangement proposal to an official (third from right) outside Government Headquarters yesterday, as lawmakers-cum-unionists Ella Lei Cheng I (first from left) and Leong Sun Iok (first from right) and Ng’s fellow organisers look on.
