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NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
a clause of thing kind, formerly,
to encounter in an action against an employee
in the Courts will have been explained to him.
Mr. Burn's problem is essentially one that
is faced by all employers who bring foreign
workers to this country they all have to
guarantee repatriation of the workers and, as
he says in his letter, other firms in the same
business as his own do not appear to have found
difficulty in accepting the Hong Kong Government's
requirements in this matter.
Finally, I should like you to know that
I have taken note of Mr. Burn's point that some
clauses in the model contract purport to place
certain duties and responsibilities on
officials in the country in which the contract
is to be performed and that the Ministry of
Labour here have stated that they cannot
particular
co-operate in the manner indicated. I can see
that the inclusion of these model clauses, as
drafted in contracts for employment in the U.K.,
could be a source of confusion and frustration.
I shall be consulting the Governor of Hong Kong
about the possibility of inserting alternative
versions of the model clauses concerned in
contracts for employment in countries where the
local authorities are not willing or able to
I understand that Clause 19, has
co-operate.
already been removed from the most recent
revision of the model contract for this reason.
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