{"id":640875,"date":"2023-04-23T23:14:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T04:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/legco-backs-higher-penalties-for-work-safety-breaches\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T23:14:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T04:14:30","slug":"legco-backs-higher-penalties-for-work-safety-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/legco-backs-higher-penalties-for-work-safety-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Legco backs higher penalties for work safety breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers on Wednesday passed amendments to occupational health and safety laws, increasing the maximum penalty for serious breaches by employers from a HK$500,000 fine and six months in jail, to HK$10 million and two years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Many councillors who spoke welcomed the changes. Unionist lawmaker Michael Luk said he thinks the higher fine will serve as a stronger deterrent against breaches that lead to industrial accidents&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1696971-20230419.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers on Wednesday passed amendments to occupational health and safety laws, increasing the maximum penalty for serious breaches by employers from a HK$500,000 fine and six months in jail, to HK$10 million and two years behind bars. Many councillors who spoke welcomed the changes. Unionist lawmaker Michael Luk said he thinks the higher fine will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4189,111844],"tags":[5242,111842],"class_list":{"0":"post-640875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-backs","8":"category-legco","9":"tag-backs","10":"tag-legco"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}