(c) Material conditions should be examined in
each factory for which an application to
employ women at night is made, and condit-
ions brought up to standard before the
Commissioner of Labour gives approval.
(a)
Careful reinspections should be made
subsequently, in particular during night
hours.
I agree that these are safeguards that the Minister might
properly lay down.
W. 3. Carter
(w.S. Carter) Hong Kong Department
31 December, 1969
I have discussed the submission above with Mr. Foggon, and
he drew my attention to the Adjournment Debate in the House of Commons on 15 December about factory night work for women. (The relevant Hansard is attached.) The safeguards which he has in mind, and which are mentioned in paragraph 6 of the submission,
are by and large those which are mentioned in the speech of the
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Employment and Productivity. I think as a general principle we should have in mind Mr. Walker's remark (column 1097) "I am bound
to say, however, that my Right Honourable Friend Mrs. Castle
believes that the disappearance of the special restrictions on
women is perhaps an inevitable part of the general and
irreversible advance towards complete equality between the sexes,
of which the advance towards equal pay is another limb."
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