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Hong Kong Case Law

Employee entitlements
  • 15 Nov 2007

    RE AFK HONG KONG LTD

    Citation
    RE AFK HONG KONG LTD
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCCW435/2006

    Payments under section 15(2)(b) of the Employment Ordinance do not constitute "accrued holiday remuneration" under section 265(1)(cd) of the Companies Ordinance; such payments are effectively wages (or treated as wages under s265(5C)) and therefore, given the statutory caps on preferential wages, only the entitlement properly characterised as s15(2)(b) (HK$21,000) is preferential and the balance remains unsecured; liquidators' classification is upheld and the application to vary is dismissed.