MPF System

Enrolment and Termination

Enrolment for Employees
Under the MPF System, employers are legally obliged to enrol new employees in the MPF scheme they are participating in.

How to choose the right MPF scheme?


The purpose of MPF is to provide retirement benefits to the working population. Employers should understand their employees’ needs and preferences beforehand in order to choose an MPF trustee and scheme that provides their employees with the most suitable products and services at appropriate levels of fee.

Can employers participate in only one scheme?


Employers may participate in more than one MPF scheme in order to offer more options to their employees so that they can choose a scheme that best suits their needs.


To give employees more choices, employers should select MPF schemes that offer a variety of MPF funds and services, and take into account the fees and performance of the funds.

Regular employees

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60-day enrolment deadline

Except for exempt persons, employers are required to enrol both their full-time and part-time employees aged 18 to 64 who have been employed for a continuous period of 60 days or more in an MPF scheme within the first 60 days of their employment. 

The 60-day period, starting from the first day of employment, is counted by calendar days (including holidays) instead of working days.

If the 60th day of employment is a Saturday, a public holiday, a gale/black rainstorm warning day or a day on which the eMPF Platform is suspended (and the suspension affects the performance of the relevant duty of an employer)#, the enrolment deadline is extended to the next day which is not a Saturday, a public holiday, a gale/black rainstorm warning day or a day on which the eMPF Platform is suspended (and the suspension affects the performance of the relevant duty of an employer)#.

Example:

Mr C is employed as a Marketing Executive. His first day of employment is 19 June. His employer has to enrol him in an MPF scheme on or before 17 August, i.e. the 60th day from his first day of employment.

Employers must not sign a series of employment contracts that are shorter than 60 days each with their employees. If an employment relationship exists for 60 days or more, the employer must still enrol the employee in an MPF scheme and make contributions.

Enrolment procedure

Employers have to provide their employees with an enrolment form of the MPF scheme(s) they are participating in.

 

The form would require the following information:

 

  • the MPF funds selected
  • personal particulars of the employee
  • tax residency self-certification ( i.e. declaration on whether the employee is a tax resident outside Hong Kong)
  • employee’s signature

 

Employers should return the completed forms to their trustees* for opening an account for their employees.

 

If an employee fails to provide the tax residency self-certification, the trustee* will not be able to open the account.

Fund choice

Employers are advised to provide their employees the enrolment form as soon as possible such that employees have sufficient time to study the funds offered by the MPF scheme and decide which funds they would like to invest in.

 

If an employee does not indicate any fund choice in the form, the contributions will be invested according to the Default Investment Strategy (DIS).

Notice of participation
After an employee has been accepted as a member of an MPF scheme, the trustee* will issue a notice of participation to the member.

The notice will include:
  • name of the MPF scheme in which the member is enrolled
  • name and address of the trustee
  • name of the scheme member
  • issue date of the notice
Failure to complete the form
If an employee refuses to complete the enrolment form properly or return the enrolment form to his/her employer, the employer should still submit the incomplete form to the trustee* by the 60th day of employment to fulfil the obligation as an employer. 
 
If an employer fails to enrol an employee in an MPF scheme on time, the employer is liable to a maximum fine of $350,000 and imprisonment for three years.
 

# Only applicable to the MPF trustees and their schemes have got onboard to the eMPF Platform

 

* MPF trustees and their schemes will get onboard the eMPF Platform in sequence one by one. When the scheme has got onboard to the Platform, eMPF Company will utilize the eMPF Platform to perform the administration of the scheme, provide scheme administration services to employer, scheme member and self-employed person and handle the service instructions. From then on, employer, scheme member and self-employed person can manage your MPF on the eMPF Platform and should no longer submit service instructions to MPF trustee; the eMPF Platform will provide the relevant information and/or documents to you directly. Please visit eMPF Website (www.empf.org.hk) for the onboarding timeline of MPF scheme(s) and the relevant information.


Casual employees of the construction and catering industries

If a casual employee does not have an account in the same Industry Scheme as the employer, the employer must enrol the employee in an MPF Scheme the employer is participating in within the first 10 days of employment.