M(85)8
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The Council ADVISED and the Governor ORDERED:
(a) that the Protection of Wages on
Insolvency Bill 1985, as annexed
to the memorandum should not be
introduced into the Legislative
Council
pending
further
consideration of -
(i)
measures to deter employers
from reliance
on
the
Commissioner for Labour's
discretion to make payments
from the fund in the
absence of a petition for
winding up or bankruptcy;
(ii) guidelines, whether by way
of legislation or
of
administrative instructions,
as to criteria (e.g. the
level of wages or the
number of workers) which
should govern the exercise
of
the
Commissioner's
discretion to make payments
from the fund in the
absence of such a petition;