Easily manage employment in Hong Kong

Hong Kongese employees are entitled to at least seven days of annual leave after working with an employer for a year. This increases with service years and caps out at 14 days off annually after nine years with an employer.

Employees are entitled to take 14 paid public holidays off and can only be required to work on a public holiday if notified at least 48 hours in advance. Should a public holiday fall on a rest day (say, Sunday) the employee will be guaranteed a working day off in place of the statutory holiday.In return, employers must provide a replacement holiday 60 days before or after the public holiday instance and cannot make a monetary replacement for the holiday forfeited.

Hong Kongese labour law guarantees employees under a continuous employment contract 80% of their prior wages, starting from the 4th day of an illness, provided the employee provides medical certification for confirmation.Unused sickness days can be accumulated at the rate of two per month for the first year of an employee’s contract and then 4 per month for the rest of the employee’s stay with the employee - without exceeding the sick day accumulation cap of 120 days.

Female Hong Kongese employees are entitled to 14 weeks of paid leave, at 80% of their average pay for the duration they have worked with an employer.

A father can take five paid days of paternity leave, anywhere from four weeks before an expected child’s delivery to 14 weeks post-delivery.The five-day paternity leave can be taken at a stretch or split up into individual days, paid at 80% of the employee’s average pay.

Hong Kongese labour law limits the mandated leave entitlements to those mentioned above, excluding adoption leaves, education leaves, and a small number of other specific leave types.