Feb 1, 2026
Please be reminded that the new “Continuous Contract” Requirement under the Employment Ordinance is applicable from 18 January 2026.
Under the new requirement, an employee is regarded as being employed under a “continuous contract” if the following criteria are met :
(1) the employee has been employed continuously by the same employer for four weeks or more; and
(2) the employee has met one of the working hours requirements :
(i) he has worked for at least 17 hours in each week; or
(ii) (where he has worked less than 17 hours in any week) he has worked for 68 hours or more in a four-week period comprising that week and the three weeks next preceding that week.
In any dispute as to whether a contract of employment is a “continuous contract”, the onus of proving that it is not a “continuous contract” shall be on the employer.
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