{"id":10297,"date":"2021-01-19T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3118388\/raising-statutory-holidays-12-17-2030-most-acceptable-deal"},"modified":"2021-01-19T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T14:08:04","slug":"raising-statutory-holidays-from-12-to-17-by-2030-the-most-acceptable-deal-for-hong-kong-employees-employers-labour-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/raising-statutory-holidays-from-12-to-17-by-2030-the-most-acceptable-deal-for-hong-kong-employees-employers-labour-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising statutory holidays from 12 to 17 by 2030 the \u2018most acceptable\u2019 deal for Hong Kong employees, employers: labour minister"},"content":{"rendered":"Raising Hong Kong statutory holidays gradually from 12 to 17 by 2030 is the \u201cmost acceptable proposal\u201d for employers and workers, the city\u2019s labour minister has said, adding that further debate on the issue will yield no consensus.Secretary of Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong was responding to lawmakers\u2019 questions on the government\u2019s plan to first add Buddha\u2019s Birthday as a statutory holiday in 2022, and then include each of the remaining four days \u2013 Boxing Day and three days of the Easter\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3118388\/raising-statutory-holidays-12-17-2030-most-acceptable-deal\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising Hong Kong statutory holidays gradually from 12 to 17 by 2030 is the \u201cmost acceptable proposal\u201d for employers and workers, the city\u2019s labour minister has said, adding that further debate on the issue will yield no consensus.Secretary of Labour a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10298,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297\/revisions\/10298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}