The Labour Department has warned employment agencies to
comply with the rules that govern their industry as it closed two of them for
various violations.
These are the first two EA closures for the year.
In a statement, LD said these agencies must conduct their business in
compliance with the law and the requirements of the Code of Practice for EAs
(the Code) at all times.
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The agencies that lost their licenses were Happy Joy
Employment Training Center (Happy Joy) and Mission Employment Agency Limited
(Mission) located in Tai Wai and Hung Hom, respectively.
“The license of Happy Joy was revoked because it failed to
meet the requirement of the Code concerning withholding the passport of a
job-seeker, and that its licensee was not a fit and proper person to operate an
EA.,” LD said.
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“The licence of Mission was revoked due to its failure to
meet the requirements set out in the Code in various aspects, including failing
to exercise due diligence in checking the accuracy of the information provided
by job-seekers; failing to ensure that the candidates offered to employers are
available for filling the vacancy at the time of accepting payment of service
fees from employers; and failing to ensure that any information that is made
available to employers is consistent with the facts made known to it.,” it
added.
The Employment Ordinance (EO) empowers the Commissioner for
Labor to revoke the license of an EA for non-compliance with the Code, or the
licensee concerned is not a fit and proper person to operate the EA.
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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 EAs,” it said.
The EO, for example, stipulates that Labour may refuse to
issue or renew a license, or revoke a license of agents for violation of
the EO, such as overcharging job seekers or operating an EA without a license.
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For inquiries about matters related to EAs or complaints
about malpractices, please call the Employment Agencies Administration of the
LD at 2115 3667, or visit its office at Unit 906, 9/F, One Mong Kok Road
Commercial Centre, 1 Mong Kok Road, Kowloon.
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