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SAVING DESPATCH
From the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
To the Governor, Hong Kong.
Date: 9 January, 1970
No.
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Your Saving Despatch No. 1142 of 13 October.
The Employment of Women at Night in
Industrial Establishments
I note with satisfaction that it was expected to enact legislation by the end of 1969 to introduce statutory rest days for male workers and that legislation will be brought forward
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later in the present session to raise Me amount of wages which
is given priority under the Bankruptcy and Companies Ordinances.
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In the circumstances (and on the assumption that legislation
introducing statutory rest days for male workers has now been enacted) it is agreed that there is no objection to the extended use of the powers to grant permission for adult women to work at night, by means of selective exemptions under Section 7(4) of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Cap.59); and that, 'as proposed by you in recent discussions here, you should initiate consultations for the purpose of determining the conditions under which such exemptions would be granted. 3. In the discussions in Hong Kong in June 1969 to which you refer, the Minister of State did, however, indicate that such night work should be voluntary and subject to proper safeguards.
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