Equal Opportunities & Privacy Protection on Employment

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• Equal Opportunities & Privacy Protection on Employmenthttp://www.gov.hk/en/business/humanresources/equal/
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• Codes of Practice on Employment Relating to the Sex Discrimination Ordinance, Disability Discrimination Ordinance and Family Status Discrimination Ordinancehttp://www.eoc.org.hk/eoc/graphicsfolder/showcontent.aspx?content=cops

  Read the Code of Practice on Employment relating to equal opportunities to understand how to comply with Sex, Disability and Family Status Discrimination Ordinances in employment process.

• Code of Practice on Human Resource Management Relating to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (pdf file)http://www.pcpd.org.hk/english/files/ordinance/hrdesp.pdf

  The code of practice provides employers and human resource management practitioners with a practical guide to the application of the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance to employment-related personal data privacy.

• Frequently Asked Questions on Recruitment Advertisements Relating to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinancehttp://www.pcpd.org.hk/english/ordinance/code_faq.html

  This fact sheet examines the particular requirements of the Code of Practice on Human Resource Management in respect of recruitment advertisements.  For example, the Code requires that parties who place recruitment advertisements must identify themselves and state the purpose for which the data are to be used if they directly solicit personal data from job applicants in their advertisements.

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Last review date: March 2010