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Question No 6
Reply by the Hon. R.G.B. Bridge, OBE, JP
Secretary for Education and Manpower
to a Question from Dr Hon Ho Kam-fai
in the Legislative Council on 14 January 1987
Question: Since the
Sir,
enactment of the
Employment
(Amendment) Ordinance in June 1981 to provide
for paid maternity leave to female employees,
has Government reviewed the
effectiveness of
the legislation in protecting pregnant workers
and, if so, what are the findings?
Since this legislation came into effect in June
1981, it has been reviewed four times.
The first of these reviews, in May 1982,
examined all aspects of the legislation in the light of
observations made by both employer and employee
organisations. It concluded that the provisions were
achieving their objective, subject to some minor
amendments to remove ambiguities concerning calculation of