Employment Ordinance

(1)
Where the employer is a company, any reference in this Part to re-engagement by the employer shall be construed as a reference to re-engagement by that company or by any associated company.
(2)
Subsection (1) shall not affect the operation of
section 31Z
in a case where the previous owner and the new owner (as defined by that section) are associated companies; and where that section applies, subsection (1) shall not apply.
(3)
Where an employee of a company is taken into the employment of another company which, at the time when he is taken into its employment, is an associated company of the first-mentioned company, his period of employment at that time shall count as a period of employment with the associated company, and the change of employer shall not break the continuity of the period of employment.
(4)
For the purposes of this section, 2 companies
                                shall be taken to be associated companies if one is a subsidiary of
                                the other, or both are subsidiaries of a third company, and
associated
                                        company
(
相聯公司
) shall be construed
                                accordingly.
(5)
In this
section—
company
(
公司
) has the meaning given by
section 2(1)
of the Companies Ordinance (
Cap. 622
);
subsidiary
(
附屬公司
) has the
                meaning given by
section 15
of the Companies Ordinance (
Cap. 622
) for the purposes of that Ordinance.
(Replaced
28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920
)