[PDLM]

You and your employer should each be paying 5% of your salary (up to a maximum of 1000/month) into a Mandatory Provident Fund. This is a legal requirement for all employees in Hong Kong, with very few exceptions. MPFA | Mandatory Provident Funds Authority

[Alby]

This is directly from the Labour Department: A Concise Guide to the Employment Ordinance.

Before employment begins, an employer must inform each employee clearly the conditions of employment under which they are employed with regards to:

1.Wages (including rate of wages, overtime rate and any allowance, whether calculated by the piece, job, hour, day, week or otherwise)

2. wage period

3. length of notice required to terminate the contract

4. if the employee is entitled to an end of year payment, the end of year payment or proportion and the payment period.

If the contract of employment is in writing, the employer shall give one copy of the written contract to the employee for retention and reference.

If the contract of employment is not in writing, the employer shall provide the employee with such information in writing if the employee, before such employment is entered into, makes a written request.

In the absence of any expressed agreement to the contrary, every contract of employment which is a continuous contract is deemed to be a contract for one month and renewable from month to month.

Recommend that you go speak to the Labor Department.

[PDLM]

Once you do that of course you also need to be looking for a new job because your employer will certainly not want you working for them any more...

[Alby]

Originally Posted by PDLM

Once you do that of course you also need to be looking for a new job because your employer will certainly not want you working for them any more...

This only if you tell them who your employer is ... since you do have a HK ID you can also go inquiring - as they cannot give legal advice but they can tell the laws that do and do not apply to your situation.

Plus, you can educate yourself to ensure that this situation can be prevented with future employers.

[emmie]

Originally Posted by LEMJ

No idea about MPF.

Even if you work a short, part-time contract teaching, for example, just a few hrs a day, for a 3mth+ period (and you SHOULD have some sort of contract letter outlining the basics with your employer, on which you both sign and keep a copy), the MPF should be set up for you and contributions made, as PDLM mentioned.

You've no problem with reporting your income and I assume you're somewhat serious as "an educator", so don't make do working for the more dodgy, money-hungry outfits/educ ctrs in the "education" market. In HK, unfortunately, we've quite our share of those Check, and check again...

[jimbo]

Originally Posted by PDLM

Once you do that of course you also need to be looking for a new job because your employer will certainly not want you working for them any more...

And as the language centre community is pretty small then you could well end up being blacklisted.

[dipper]

Jimbo

I work in the education industry and the whole blacklist thing is a myth in my opinion. Whilst Mr. Dodgy of Dodgy Language Centre might phone up a few of his dodgy mates, reputable companies aren't involved in that nonsense. In ten years we've gotten a couple of faxes slagging off teachers and we've thrown them straight in the bin, we're perfectly capable of making our own decisions about who to employ. We certainly wouldn't refuse to employ someone merely because they had stopped working for a dodgy language centre.

[Hamton]

Originally Posted by PDLM

You and your employer should each be paying 5% of your salary (up to a maximum of 1000/month) into a Mandatory Provident Fund. This is a legal requirement for all employees in Hong Kong, with very few exceptions. MPFA | Mandatory Provident Funds Authority

There are exemptions to the MPF though.
MPFA Interactive Guide

Included are people working in HK for a short term (<13 months) and people with existing pension plans overseas, which I expect includes a large amount of expats.