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REPORTS ON THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONVENTIONS
Government Secretariat letter (27) in SS 3/5683/58 VII of
20 September 1976 refers.
1.
Your report on Convention 26 (Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery) is being sent forward to the International Labour Office.
There are, however, certain aspects of your reply to the Committee of Experts' Direct Request on this Convention which we believe may give rise to further comment and query by the Committee. We should be grateful for any additional information you can let us have, for forwarding to the ILO, on the following points:
2.
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(b)
can you please explain the basis for the statement
in the reply under Question II, Article 1, that outworkers
in the woollen knitting industry who were self-employed were able in the early 1970's "to earn more than their
counterparts working in a factory."
the grounds for the statement in the following paragraph that the rates paid to outworkers "are believed to be comparable to those paid to their counterparts doing,
similar types of work in a factory
and can even be
higher
As Convention 26 has been declared applied without modification to Hong Kong and, as the Direct Request by the Committee of Experts points out, aims at protecting trades or parts of trades where no arrangements exist for the effective regulation of wages by collective agreements or otherwise, the ILO can be expected to keep under review the position of home workers in Hong Kong.
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