Hong Kong Housing Authority and Housing Department

The Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) has recently held the 10^th working group meeting for Monitoring Wages Payment to Workers. A wide spectrum of representatives from the construction industry stakeholders, including Development Bureau, Labour Department, Independent Commission Against Corruption, Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, contractor associations, contractors and worker unions, attended it.

The meeting marked a key milestone of our 10^th year’s implementation of the Wage Monitoring System (WMS). With the concerted effort and continuous enhancement of the system, the performance indicators, comprising on-time submission of smart card record, employment contract and wage payment record, and wage payment by bank auto-pay, in the HA New Works contracts and Maintenance and Improvement contracts, showed continuous improvement over the past 10 years.

The encouraging WMS performance in the HA contracts has also been recognised that there has been positive paramount change of building industry culture and practices regarding employment relationship and wage payment to workers. We will continue to collaborate with stakeholders for further enhancement of the system, to uphold our stringent risk mitigation measures, so as to protect the interests of the HA, contractors, workers and the industry as a whole.