BY BAG
FM HONG KONG
UNCLASSIFIED
REC
SAVING TELEGRAM
RECEIVER IN
23 SEP 1975
HKK 5/31
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/of Interna-
tional Labour
Convention No. 14
RET
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TO ROUTINE HONG KONG TELNO 201 SAVING OF 15 SEPTEMBER 1975.
International Labour Convention No. 14 Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921
Your saving telegram No. 37 of 20th August 1975 refers,
We agree that an improved declaration of "applied with modifications" in respect of Articles 2 and 5/should be registered with the International Labour Office, but the modifications should be along the following lines:
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Article 2
(1)
(ii)
Apart from those employees, namely all manual workers and non-manual workers whose wages do not exceed two thousand dollars (Hong Kong) per month, who are entitled to four rest days a month under the Employment Ordinance; other employees who work in banks, educational establishments, public offices and Government departments are entitled to a general holiday every Sunday under section 3(a) of the Holidays Ordinance, Cap. 149. In practice, other employees also benefit such as those employed in commercial establishments, shipping firms, insurance companies; and the offices of factories which do not transact business when the banks are closed.
"rest day" is defined under section 2 of the Employment Ordinance to mean a continuous period of not less than twenty-four hours during which an employee is entitled to abstain from working for his employer.
(iii) There is no mandatory requirement that a rest day shall be given in every working period of 7 days, except under regulation 14(2) of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, which states that no proprietor of an industrial undertaking shall employ therein any woman or young person on more than six days in any week.
Article 5
Adult male workers with a statutory entitlement to rest days per month may work voluntarily on those days but there is no statutory requirement that compensatory rest periods chould be granted.
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