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and thiere ve of course, nothing to prevent the employer and the worker freely negotiating a longer period
expect an employer who recruits alien workers
from so far away as Hong Kong to bear the sole
responsibility for the recruitment expenses that
he incurs.
The Hong Kong Government do not deny that
their requirement is unfavourable to an employer
in circumstances where an unscrupulous worker
walks out on his contract after having obtained
a passage to the United Kingdom at his
employer's expense. There are, however,
legitimate circumstances in which a worker
might reasonably wish to terminate a contract
which he has signed without full knowledge of
working conditions in this country. The Hong
Kong Government have gone some way towards
making it more difficult for the unscrupulous
worker to terminate employment, by extending the
period of notice recommended in their model
contract, from one month to three months, The HK. Govt
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have not, however, been able to devise a
suitable alternative provision which would
safeguard the employer against abuses while, at
the same time, protecting the interests of th
Chinese workers proceeding abroad for employment.
objective It is this latter consideration for which it is,
of course, the essential purpose of the
legislation, to provide.
The second aspect of the passages problem
is the employer's liability to bear the
repatriation expenses of the alien worker whom
he has brought to this country. This again
is a requirement of Hong Kong law, based on
Article 13
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