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Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Although in Rankin's question
relates to dependent registories in
General, it
Fuelt be, in view
in that territory
and his specific
reference / to the
of his phown interest that it is
clothing industry, antested largely
Sa Ĥ conuderable 5. A
4.
proportion of Hong Kong industry, including
Spinning and wearing
and the princpane
huble utilities, gerate
on a
shift basis and
has already adopted
a 48 hour week for
all workers,
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As in the UK, there is
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no great statutory
the hours
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were to limit the hours of work of
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are regulated by at law and are being
young persons in dating. Chronicle of win law and are perna t in Jammy, 1959.
permitted makina have been
reduced and
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a
for Raatin is
the
there is to be
reduced
"progressively seduction to 48 hours
weeks by 7 (Me Whitlock's reply
to Mr. Phornton, with October, 1967,
Hansard (als 408-09).
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Hong Kong trade unions
neffective bocke's
;
circumstances of
Curre
rather
posible alternative s
of develgsing machinery for establishing
more
Offective
d and productive relations between workers and employers
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