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602 PDFTitle:Race Discrimination OrdinanceGazette Number:L.N. 166 of 2009
Section:24Heading:Employees, etc.Version Date:10/07/2009

Harassment

(1) It is unlawful for a person, in relation to employment by that person at an establishment in Hong Kong, to harass a person who is seeking to be employed by that person.
(2) It is unlawful for a person (ˇ§the first-mentioned personˇ¨), in the case of a person employed by that first-mentioned person at an establishment in Hong Kong, to harass that other person.
(3) It is unlawful for a person, who is employed by another person (ˇ§the second-mentioned personˇ¨) at an establishment in Hong Kong to harass a person who is seeking to be, or who is, employed by that second-mentioned person.
(4) It is unlawful for the principal, in relation to work to which section 15 applies, to harass another person who is a contract worker.
(5) It is unlawful for a contract worker to harass another person who is a fellow contract worker.
(6) It is unlawful for a partner of a firm to harass a person who is seeking to be, or who is, a partner in the firm.
(7) Subsection (6) applies in relation to persons proposing to form themselves into a partnership as it applies in relation to a firm.
(8) Section 17(6) applies to subsection (6) as it applies to section 17(1).
(9) It is unlawful for the principal, in relation to work to which section 22 applies, to harass a person who is a commission agent.
(10) It is unlawful for a commission agent to harass a person who is a fellow commission agent.
(11) It is unlawful for a person who is seeking to be, or who is, employed by a person at an establishment in Hong Kong to harass the second-mentioned person.
(12) It is unlawful for a person residing in any premises to harass another person who isˇX
        (a) employed by a third person at an establishment in Hong Kong (whether or not the third person also resides in those premises and whether or not those premises are that establishment); and
        (b) carrying out in those premises all or part of his or her work in relation to the employment (whether or not he or she resides in those premises).