Male Filipino domestic workers, mostly drivers, may not be aware of it, but they are now entitled to statutory paid paternity leave for 3 days. Hong Kong’s Labor Department began implementing the Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2014 on statutory paternity leave on February 27 this year, an official of the agency reminded domestic workers in a post-arrival orientation seminar on August 23. Jace Chan, assistant manager of the department’s Workplace Consultation Promotion Division, said the paternity leave is one of the paid leaves that all qualified workers are entitled to under Hong Kong laws. A male employee with a child born on or after February 27 is entitled to 3 days’ paid paternity leave if he had been employed on a continuous contract for not less than 40 weeks immediately before the day of his paternity leave.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos
Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
