Friday, July 20, 1973
A large number of minor grievances were allowed to drop by the
complainants after the initial complaint, and a number of cases which began
late in the quarter were carried over into July before settlement.
During the quarter the service responded to 4,448 consultations
and enquiries initiated by workers and employers.
Mr. Tsui said: "As part of our continuing effort to improve
relationships between management and workers, officers of the Labour Relations
Service visited 49 industrial and commercial establishments during the
quarter to encourage management to introduce joint consultative arrangements,
to prepare written contracts of employment, and to work out grievance
procedures in order to preserve industrial harmony.
"We feel that such consultative machinery is vital to good management-
employee relations, and is the best possible way of preventing disputes
which mean loss of wages to workers and loss of profits to management."
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