Hello staff contracts ‘breached’
Almost 100 members of the sales and service staff of mobile phone provider Hellopoint are awaiting a meeting with the Ministry of Labour after submitting a complaint last month claiming that a policy introduced in July amounted to a breach of their employment contracts. According to a copy of the August 13 complaint obtained by the Post yesterday, the “Hellopoint Incentive Scheme Policy”, which sets up incentive bonuses for those whose sales figures exceed certain quotas, also allows for 10 to 20 per cent deductions in staffers’ base pay if those quotas are not met, disregarding the base salaries guaranteed in the complainants’ employment contracts. ... In fact, Article 127 of the Labour Law forbids deductions from employees’ salaries, with only a handful of exceptions, and Article 129 states: “Collective agreements authorising any wage deductions other than these cases are null and void.” ...
