Key facts
- The Civil Service Bureau set out the leave details in a paper to the Legislative Council's public service panel on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.
- Staff may use the leave to accompany family members to medical appointments and care for sick relatives, per the paper.
- The government said it would keep approval procedures flexible and streamlined, describing the approach as people-orientated.
Hong Kong's Civil Service Bureau set out plans to give civil servants up to 12 hours of family care leave a year from January, in a paper submitted to the Legislative Council's public service panel on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.
The government said approval procedures would be flexible and streamlined, describing the approach as "people-orientated". The leave may be used to accompany family members to medical appointments and to care for sick relatives, according to the paper.
The initiative was first announced in September's policy address. The report excerpt does not say how many staff are covered or whether approval rests with individual departments.