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Wednesday, October 18, 1972
HEAD OF LABOUR TRIBUNAL NAMED
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The man who will be the Presiding Officer of Hong Kong's first
Labour Tribunal is Mr. Michael K.C. Wong, a former Senior Crown Counsel.
The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, told Legislative Council
today that the Tribunal will come into operation on March 1 next year,
The Labour Tribunal which is part of the Judiciary, will operate
from offices on the 1st floor of Permanent Comfort Building 74-77 Connaught
Road, Central. The site was chosen because it is conveniently near bus
stations and the ferry.
Mr. Wong will first spend a month with the Labour Department
familiarising himself with certain aspects of its work and will later visit
the Department of Legal Aid and various sections of the Judiciary.
The Labour Tribunal Ordinace, passed by the Legislative Council
in March this year seeks to provide a quick, cheap and informal method of
settling certain types of disputes between workers and employers.
It will deal mostly with claims by individual workers against
employers for money due either under a contract of employment, the Employment
Ordinance or other laws named in the Ordinance.
It will not have power to deal or interfere with industrial disputes,
strikes, lock-outs or negotiations between employers and groups of workers
or trade unions. These matters will still be solved by normal conciliation
procedures with the help of the Labour Relations Service of the Labour
Department.
Under the