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(a) empowering the Commissioner for Labour to make in respect of periods of special pressure of work orders increasing the hours of employment prescribed in any regulation made under the section in relation to any employee;
(b) providing that certain copies of documents shall be
admitted in evidence before any court and for evidential matters relating to such documents; and
(c) providing that any person working in any place of
employment at any work connected with the purpose for which such place is used shall, unless otherwise provided, be deemed to be employed therein for the purposes of regulations made under the section.
Employment agencies dealing with domestic servants
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Part XII of the Employment Ordinance, which regulates private employment agencies essentially by licensing and which was enacted in 1973, does not apply to those agencies dealing solely with domestic servants. The reason for the exclusion was that at that time such agencies were generally operating on a small scale, mostly under staircases or on the roadside near markets, with no properly identifiable premises. Further- more, local domestic servants were in such short supply that there was little likelihood of their being exploited by the agencies. However the situation has now changed. In the last few years there has been an influx of domestic helpers from overseas, mainly from the Philippines. With the growing popularity of this source of domestic help, a number of agencies dealing specifically with domestic helpers from the Philippines have been established and because of the absence of regulatory legislation covering them, malpractices have sprung up, including poaching, deception and finding low-paid helper jobs for aliens with tourist visas or forged references of working experience. It is felt that fee-charging employment agencies dealing solely with domestic servants should no longer be excluded from the ambit of Part XII of the Ordinance. Accordingly it is proposed to delete section 50(3)(d) of the Ordinance (clause 4).
Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Amendment) Bill 1980 (Annex B)
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As already explained in paragraph 2 above, this bill sets out the consequential amendments to the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance.
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