Implementing a statutory minimum wage in Hong Kong: appreciating international experiences but recognizing local conditions

Title: Implementing a statutory minimum wage in Hong Kong: appreciating international experiences but recognizing local conditions
Creator: Price, Rohan; Ho, John Kong Shan
Relation: Common Law World Review Vol. 40, Issue 2, p. 95-118
Relation: http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202317
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: The much debated Minimum Wage Ordinance eventually secured passage in the Hong Kong Legislative Council on 17 July 2010 and is to take effect on 1 May 2011. A Minimum Wage Council established under the Ordinance has made recommendations to the Chief Executive on the initial minimum wage level. This paper compares the minimum wage legislation in Hong Kong with that of other Western jurisdictions and seeks to identify what the former can learn from these international experiences in setting a statutory minimum wage. In the final analysis, it is argued that these experiences provide a good platform for implementing a broadly similar regime in the Special Administrative Region, albeit one with ′Hong Kong characteristics′.
Subject: employment law; minimum wage; labour economics; Hong Kong; Australia; United Kingdom
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058444
Identifier: uon:16409
Identifier: ISSN:1473-7795
Language: eng
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