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. اسالها أحدا
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لحد الان
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It was necessary 1:0 modify Article 2 because the Employment Ordinance then did not cover non-manual employees earning more than HK$11,500 per month. The Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 1990, enacted on 6.6.1990, removed the
distinction between manual and non-manual employees thus rendering the modificiation unnecessary.
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Modification is still required for Article However, the wording of the modification regarding work on rest day' should be improved to reflect the removal of the distinction between manual and non-manual employees, without affecting the substance of the modification:
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Original modification
Adult male workers with a statutory entitlement to one rest day every seven days may work voluntarily on that day but there is no statutory requirement that a compensatory rest period should be granted.
Suggested amendment
Adult male workers may work voluntarily on a
est day but there is no statutory requirement that a compensatory rest pe::iod should be granted.
Repatriation of Seamen Convention, 1926 (No. 23)
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A position paper on the application of ILC No. 23 in Hong Kong is
at Annex A. In addition, you may wish to note that, with the enactment 01: the proposed Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance later this year, the provisions concerning the repatriation of seamen in. the UK Merchant Shipping Act 1894 vill be repealed in so far as they are part of the law of Hong Kong and replaced with similar provisions in the new Ordinance and the Regulations made thereunder.
A declaration of "applied without modification" is therefore recommended for ILC No. 23.
Holidays with Pay (Agriculture) Convention, 1921 (No. 191)
Since 1978, the Holidays with Pay (Agriculture) Convention, 1921 (No. 101) has teen applied in Hong Kong
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