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Registry No.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
DRAFT LETTER
To:-
Secret.
Confidential.
Ernest Thornton, Esq.,
M.B.E., M.P.,
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
Dear
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
The difficulty of obtaining detailed information
about the hours of overtime legally permitted in Asian
countries other than Hong Kong prevented me from replying
more fully to your Parliamentary Question earlier in the
week.
I regret that even now the information I have
since been able to obtain scarcely enables an accurate
comparison to be made with Hong Kong.
Rü
Fer
My Honourable friend, the Minister of Labour, has
given you the information obtained from the I.L.O. in
seven
respect of
ĥ
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 30th November 1969.
However, full details of the
Seven
overtime provisions in those X countries are not available,
nor are the regulations (if any) that may be applicable
in a large number of other Asian countries like Taiwan,
Lacs
Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, &), Burman, Cambodia
or Thailand, and I would not feel justified in incurring
the expense of a search for them. It is quite possible
that even where there are regulations stipulating shorter
maximum hours of overtime for women and young persons than
in Hong Kong, they are not so strictly enforced.
/As