Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market will resume trading next Tuesday, Wednesday live poultry supply, the authorities next week to discuss the resumption of live poultry to Hong Kong and the Mainland, Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao Figure arrangements
BEIJING, Feb. 15, according to Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao reported that the Hong Kong SAR Government to determine the Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market City complex next Tuesday, Wednesday, there will be live poultry supply, but it will restore the mainland live chickens to Hong Kong, the Government has yet to There are in discussions with the Mainland authorities on Monday after inconclusive. Moreover, the Government officially threw out the 'chicken ban order' compensation program to provide statutory compensation for the top five poultry industry, special allowances and free rent and other compensation, and even affected by the incident and change as 'overage' chickens also damages totaling involving an amount of 17.7 million yuan.
HKSAR Government meeting yesterday with the poultry industry, announced diversion measures progress and compensation mechanism is understood, the Government has announced in a meeting, Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale is available for the resumption of trading on Tuesday, the public can buy live chickens next Wednesday.
Since the Government has not yet found the shunt diversion of imported live chickens Mainland locations unknown whether imports of live chickens while restoring the mainland, the Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man will be next Monday to discuss measures Mainland authorities, no later than next Tuesday finalized.
No live chickens finalized next Tuesday
Government departments accountable compensation plan at the meeting, as an 'chicken ban order' five industries affected include chicken farmers, wholesalers, retailers, transporters and wholesale self-employed workers compensation and ex-gratia allowance, involving an amount totaling 17,700,000 yuan. SAR Government has submitted to the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council documents to apply for funding in next Friday for approval.
The paper noted that Hong Kong will be in response to earlier culling Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale 22,000 live birds, only 30 yuan per law amounts to compensate wholesalers, but also taking into account the sale of the chicken industry lost the Lunar New Year peak period suffered heavy economic strike, decided to issue a one-off ex-gratia allowance.
Chicken farming areas, in the January 28 cut-off date of 80 city full of big overage 289,000 chickens will be issued each 30 yuan subsidy. Wholesalers, retailers and transport operators will be entitled to a rent reduction for a month and Fat ranged from 20,000 to 40,000 yuan for a one-off ex-gratia allowance, self-employed workers receive 7,000 yuan wholesale lump sum ex-gratia allowance.
Documents show that the Government will not intervene directly in the employment relationship, to protect employees' rights, the EGA will be a one-time payment of 80% in advance, the employer shall, within 30 days of FC funding application by post, no employees raised about this measure to the Labour Department claims in order to obtain the remaining 20% allowance, if any employee compensation, the employer shall be issued only after the claims resolved balance.
Chicken farmers and promote the slaughter of chickens compensation policy review
The meeting was attended chickens contractors Zhanqiang Zheng said contractors mode of operation is to chicks sold to farms, farm raised chickens again until after the fixed acquisition, resale retailer himself in this incident suffer a double loss, in addition to farm location constraints, the need for self-destruction of 10,000 chicks, loss of 70,000 yuan, in addition to the loss of school-age chicken chicken becomes overage, but completely ignores the SAR government programs contractor who is studying through judicial review claim damages.
In addition, Sun Life farm owner and chairman of the New Territories Chicken Breeders Association Liliang Ji considered inadequate compensation, he pointed out, each 30 yuan compensation for slaughtered chickens legal basis was laid down 40 years ago, the incident should not be used for compensation Basis He refers to the current policy has been formulated, will certainly not change, but expect the Government to review the policy in future, with the times. Kowloon City chicken stall Ling Jie said the compensation is totally inadequate to compensate for the loss of retailers, but only the Government can market re-opened as soon as possible.
Source: Wantinews