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In Confidence
Ernest Thornton, Esq.,
MBE., MP.,
House of Commons,
S.W. 1.
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From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
The difficulty of obtaining detailed
information about the hours of overtime legally
permitted in Asian countries other than Hong
George Thomson
Kong prevented me from replying more fully to
in the House last your Parliamentary Question earlier in the week,
heave his promor to write
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I-regret that, even now, the information chave
since been able to obtain scarcely enables an
accurate comparison to be made with Hong Kong.
compary gamin
Garn that
Ray Gunter has given you the information
obtained from the I.1.0. in respect of seven
Asian countries.
From this it seems that in
India alone of the seven, are women and young
persons at present permitted to work longer hours
of over-time than in Hong Kong and that this will
cease to be true after 30 November 1969.
However, full details of the overtime provisions
опред in those seven countries are not available,
nor are the regulations (if any) that may be
applicable in a large number of other Asian
countries like Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam,
Laos, Burma, Cambodia or Thailand, and I would
not feel justified in incurring the expense of a
search for them. It is quite possible that even
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