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the Schedule to that Chapter. Whilst the subject of fixed penalties has exercised us over the past year, this amendment is a purely technical one, and does not seek to alter the present system of fixed penalties. It simply empowers traffic wardens to issue tickets in the performance of their duties. It remains for those concerned to meet their liability immediately or to decline to do so in which case the fixed penalty shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt.
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Motion made. That the debate on the second reading of the bill be adjourned-SECRETARY FOR SECURITY.
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· EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) (NO 3) BILL 1974
SECRETARY FOR SOCIAL SERVICES (ACTING) moved the second reading of:-"A bill to amend the Employment Ordinance.
He said:-Sir, this bill is part of the continuing process of up- dating and amending the 1968 Employment Ordinance, which was designed eventually to accommodate, in a comprehensive way, all legislative provisions dealing with rights and obligations of employees in relation to their employers. This latest amendment, which adds a new Part 11C to the ordinance, gives legislative effect to the protec- tion of employees, as members of trade unions, in relation to their employers.
The rights and obligations of the trade unions themselves are fully dealt with in the Trade Unions Ordinance. However, that ordinance does not specifically give protection to a worker who may be dis- missed, or not taken on, by an employer, solely because he is a member of a trade union. It is considered more appropriate to cover this situation in the Employment Ordinance, rather than in the Trade Unions Ordinance, since it is the individual relationship between the employer and the employee which is involved, and not a trade union or its corporate activities. The amending bill thus confers no additional rights on trade unions.
The bill gives legislative effect to the generally accepted principle that an employee has the right to join a trade union and that union membership should not work to his detriment. This principle is the subject of International Labour Convention No. 98, which has been accepted in full by 93 countries, and 24 dependent territories. The bill, which is similar to legislation applying the provisions of this convention