EMPLOYMENT
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most skilled and many unskilled workers have been absorbed in the expanding economy, considerable under-employment is believed to exist among the unskilled.
Migration for employment. As many countries rigidly control the entry of Chinese, Hong Kong workers seeking employment over- seas are restricted to comparatively few territories. The majority go to North Borneo, Brunei and Sarawak where development projects have created a heavy demand for skilled and semi-skilled workers. The British Phosphate Commission continued to recruit for work in Nauru and Ocean Island and invited an officer of the Labour Department to sail with the migrants and gain first-hand knowledge of employment conditions. Fishermen went to Singa- pore and North Borneo and skilled workmen were recruited for the manufacture of enamelware in Indonesia and Nigeria. Tailors found employment in Okinawa and a number of restaurant workers migrated to Australia. The most noticeable trend of the year, however, was the increase in the number of restaurant workers who left for the United Kingdom.
Except for British subjects leaving for employment in the United Kingdom, all emigrant manual workers are required to enter-con- tracts approved by the Labour Department and conforming with the international labour conventions. During 1961, 1,513 of these contracts were approved, compared with 1,584 in 1960.
WAGES AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Wages. The wages of workers not engaged on piece rates are calculated on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis and are customarily paid at weekly or fortnightly intervals. Supervisors, technicians, employees of public utility companies, and all Govern- ment servants other than a few casual workers, are normally paid each month. Most semi-skilled and unskilled workers in manu- facturing industries and in the printing trade are on daily rates of pay.
There is no discrimination against women in rates of pay for piece work, but men engaged on a time basis are generally more highly paid than their female counterparts. Apprentices receive progressively increasing rates of pay throughout a training period