New Amendments to Employees' Compensation Ordinance (2)

The Employees’ Compensation Ordinance stipulates that an employer may require an employee to undergo medical examinations. In the past, it is too difficult for an employee to obtain a copy of the report. However, the new amendments now assist an employee to request the employer to send the employee free of charge a copy of the report and the employer is required to comply with such request before the later of the following:-
(a) the expiry of 21 days after the employer receives the request; or
(b) the expiry of 14 days after the report is received by the employer.

Unfortunately, the abovementioned only applies an employee's injuries caused by accidents arising out of and in the course of employment on or after 1 September 2008.

Again, the booklet in http://www.labour.gov.hk/eng/public/ecd/SummaryNewAmendmentsECO.pdf may assist our understanding to the same.