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Two-hour grace period for Hong Kong employees to return to work after extreme weather aims to avoid transport chaos of Typhoon Mangkhut

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Hong Kong’s 3.8 million workers will be able to stay at home for two hours after a storm subsides instead of returning to work immediately, under government proposals to avoid a repeat of the transport chaos seen in the aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut last year.The amended storm guidelines, which were revealed on Tuesday, will not be legally binding however, and lawmakers suggested the changes would not keep people at home for longer.Typhoon Mangkhut prompted the city’s weather authority to issue…

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