8 hour day for women and young persons. This will Love the effect of
high-light for all to see those sections of
industry in Hong Kong in which the 8 hour day his
not yet been introduced,
You wie wish to know
What is disturbing is the time it may take
before the new legislation is enacted.
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the
proposed time-table, is that the Labour Advisory
Executive Council's
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Board will consider on 11 May the/proposals for
the reduction of hours.
The matter will be
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be gone Innomen as Got Shond" ∙as speedily as the procedures "permit.
referred to the Board in the form of a memorandum
in both English and Chinese explaining the
proposals and the consequential legislation in
laymens terms. This is necessary since four of
the workers' representatives on the Board are
Chinese and have only a minimal knowledge of
English. Drafting of the proposed amending
regulations has been put in hand and should be
completed by early May. In the light of the
Board's advice the proposed legislation would then
be put back to Executive Council and, once
approved, would then have to go to the Legislature
in the usual way. All this follows roughly the
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U.K. pattern. We have not yet been able to draw
precise dare for the final stage (the Legistarme) up a firm time-table, but I am in touch with the
Governor about this, and am confident that. we can ensure that the necaman's stages ontlured To sum up, there is now, belatedly, a
faint sign of progress involving the improvement
of the conditions of women and young persons in
Hong Kong. It is my firm intention to continue
to press for further and more significant
advance.
Sjal (JUDITH MATS
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