how much employer paid for Mandatory provident fund

Posted by pliang8 (20 days ago)

a friend of mine recently offered a ground position in Cathay Pacific airway in hong kong. her employer paid only effectively 1% of her base salary, while flying position such as Second officer is being paid 15.5%. is this normal difference between ground and flying positon in Cathay? also the annual leave is 18 days instead of 21 days for Second officer.

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Posted by beancurd (20 days ago)

Normally, both employer and employee contribute 5% to MPF. Fo the salary over 20k, the maximum contribution of the employee is HK$1,000.00. But some companies are paying exactly 5% of the employee's salary. The employee can also choose to make extra voluntary contribution to the MPF.

Please be noted that 5% contribution of employer and employee is mandatory and it is the obligation of the company to contribute at least 5% and 1% is not acceptable.

Regarding the annual leave, it depends to the company but standard annual leave by labor department is 7 days annual leave up to the 2nd year. The third year is increasing to 8 days, etc. The labor department has standard no. of days to follow.
You can go the labor department website.