Moral hazard, insolvency and employees as creditors: what governance lessons can be learned from the Hong Kong model?

Title: Moral hazard, insolvency and employees as creditors: what governance lessons can be learned from the Hong Kong model?
Creator: Ho, John Kong Shan; Price, Rohan
Relation: Journal of Corporate Law Studies Vol. 11, Issue 2, p. 525-550
Relation: http://www.hartjournals.co.uk/jcls
Publisher: Hart Publishing Ltd.
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: This article argues that each of the US, the UK and Australia could take inspiration from Hong Kong's Protection of Wages on Insolvency Fund (POWIF) because it has the makings of a world-leading model for the protection of employee entitlements in circumstances of business failure. In particular, it is argued that although POWIF is open to fraud by unscrupulous employers it does not unduly increase moral hazard because its coverage provides only a modest safety net, it is funded by a mandatory private sector levy and it operates on a self-sustaining basis.
Subject: comparative insolvency laws; employee creditor; insolvency priority
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058243
Identifier: uon:16368
Identifier: ISSN:1473-5970
Language: eng
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