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Monday, December 18, 1972
OVER 200 LABOUR PROBLEMS SETTLED IN NOVEMBER
With Help Of Labour Relations Service
The Labour Relations Service of the Labour Department helped
employers and employees settle 248 labour problems in November.
As a result of agreements reached, 531 employees received a
total of $588,549.
of this total, 19% were paid by employers as outstanding wages,
payment in lieu of notice, statutory holiday pay and bonuses of a contract- ual nature under either the Employment Ordinance or the Industrial Employment (Holidays with Pay and Sickness Allowance) Ordinance.
The remaining 85% or $497.399 were paid, apart from legal entitle-
ments, as severance pay and other ex gratia payments to employees.
This amount includes a sum of $399,900 paid as ex gratia severance pay to 98 redundant workers formerly employed by two contractors of a godown
company.
Fresh nominal clains made by employees in the same month amounted to $1,342,108.
Officers of various district branches of the Labour Relations
Service also handled. 1,564 consultations and enquiries about labour laws,
industrial relations and personnel management.
They visited twenty-five establishments to help employers introduce
joint consultative machinery to strengthen communication between labour and
management.
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