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that effect; and
(c) has given notice as required under the Employment Ordinance and produced medical certificates as required by the employer under the ordinance.
In the civil service, a female officer who has completed 40 weeks of resident service is granted, for three surviving children only, full pay during maternity leave to cover a total absence from duty of up to ten weeks.
Article 3(d)
There is no provision for a woman to nurse her child during working hours.
Article 4
There is no provision under Civil Service Regulations prohibiting the dismissal of a woman officer during her absence on account of maternity leave or illness medically certified to arise out of pregnancy or confinement although in practice women officers have never been dismissed under such circumstances.
No. 10 Minimum Age (Agriculture) Convention, 1921
Modification
Article 1
Children under the age of 14 years but who have attained the age of 13 years and have completed Secondary III (i.e. three years of secondary education after six years' primary schooling) may, with the written consent of one of their parents, be employed, under certain conditions designed to protect their health, welfare and morals, in agricultural undertakings which do not come within the definition of an industrial undertaking under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance.
No. 14 Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921
Modifications
Article 5
Adult male workers may work voluntarily on a rest day but there is no statutory requirement that a compensatory rest period should be granted.
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