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WIG FACTORY DISPUTE SETTLED
Wednesday, June 27, 1973
The four-week old Gilda Fashions dispute was settled today at a
meeting held in the headquarters of the Labour Relations Service of the
Labour Department in Queensway.
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Under the agreement reached, the 1,300 workers formerly employed
by the wig factory at Tsuen Wan now in receivership will be paid a
total of $390,000 in severance pay.
The head of the Labour Relations Service, Mr. T.F. Tsui, who chaired
the meeting said the back wages to the workers would be paid in the factory
tomorrow (Thursday) morning in the presence of officers of the Labour Relations
Service.
The $390,000 in severance pay would be handed over to the workers next
Wednesday in the Tsuen Wan office of the Service.
The dispute began on June 8 when the company gave the workers one
month's notice saying that the factory was to be closed because of lack of
business.
The workers demanded severance pay, but the management would not
meet their demands,
The Labour Relations Service subsequently arranged a series of
meetings between the workers representatives and the company's receivers.
last three meetings in the series were also attended by the former head of
Gilda Fashions Ltd.
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