by a Labour Advisory Board constituted on a tripartite basis. The Labour Commissioner is ex-officio Chairman and there are nine members representing the interests of European Employers, Chinese Employers, and Chinese Labour respectively.
Legislation.
The aim of labour policy in Hong Kong is two-fold. In the first place it is designed to implement, as far as possible, the standards of the International Labour Code. Secondly ad hoc legislation is sometimes necessary to meet specific local needs.
Some of the subjects included in International Conventions which also find a place in local enactments are the following:-
Subject Matter
I. Regulation of the em- ployment of women, young persons and children in regard to age, nature of occupa- tion, hours and condi- tions of work.
International Convention
Minimum Age (Industry) Conventions, 1919 & 1937.
Minimum Age (Sea) Con- ventions, 1920 & 1936.
Minimum Age (Trimmers & Stokers) Convention, 1921.
Night Work (Young
H.K. Legislation Factories & Workshops Ordinance, 1937. Employment of Young Persons & Children at Sea Ordinance, 1932. Merchant Shipping (Hong Kong) Orders, 1936-applying the Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions)
Act, 1925.
Persons)
1919.
Convention
Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised) 1934.
Underground Work (Women)
1935.
Factories & -Workshops
Ordinance, 1937.
Factories &
Convention, Workshops
Ordinance, 1937.
II. Seamen.
Merchant
Medical Examination of Young Persons (Sea) Convention, 1921.
1936.
Shipping (Hong Kong) Orders,
Unemployment Indemnity Merchant
(Shipwreck) Convention, Shipping (Hong
1921.
Kong) Orders, 1936.
Seamen's Agreement 1926.
Articles of Convention,
Merchant
Shipping
Ordinance, 1899.
III. Minimum Wages.
Minimum Machinery 1928.
Wage - Fixing
Trade Boards
Convention, Ordinance, 1940.
Other matters, directly or indirectly concerned with labour, but of more local significance are:-
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