Statutory Holidays for 2017 |
Statutory
Holidays for 2017 The 12 statutory holidays for 2017 are:
- The first day of January (1 January)
- Lunar New Year’s Day (28 January)
- The third day of Lunar New Year (30 January)
- The fourth day of Lunar New Year (31 January) *
- Ching Ming Festival (4 April)
- Labour Day (1 May)
- Tuen Ng Festival (30 May)
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day
(1 July)
- National Day (1 October)
- The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (5 October)
- Chung Yeung Festival (28 October)
- Chinese Winter Solstice Festival (22 December) or Christmas Day (25 December) (at the option of the employer)
* As the second day of Lunar New Year of 2017 falls on a Sunday,
according to the Employment Ordinance, the fourth day of Lunar New Year
will be designated as a statutory holiday.
All employees are entitled to the above statutory holidays. If the
statutory holiday falls on a rest day, a holiday should be granted on
the day following the rest day which is not a statutory holiday or an
alternative holiday or a substituted holiday or a rest day. An employee
having been employed under a continuous contract for not less than 3
months is entitled to the holiday pay which is equivalent to the daily
average wages earned by the employee in the 12-month period preceding
the holiday.
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