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The government plans to launch a new provisional maternity leave subsidy scheme to pay up to 14 days of maternity leave for employers in the private sector, Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) Director Wong Chi Hong said yesterday.Wong made the remarks after a meeting of the government-appointed Social Affairs Coordination Standing Committee (CPCS) at the World Trade Centre Macau (WTCM) in Zape, stressing that whether there is a subsidy scheme or not, all employers are required to provide 70 days of

The legislature’s 1st Standing Committee yesterday continued discussing a government-initiated bill on the non-mandatory central provident fund system, in which lawmakers agreed with the government’s proposal that an employee does not need to contribute to the fund if their monthly salary is less than the statutory minimum wage after deducting the dues payable, while their employer still has to pay the empoyees’ share of the dues for the staff member, according to lawmaker-cum-unionist