15
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1988
MORNING,
NOW
NOTING THAT THESE DISCUSSIONS WERE HELD LAST SATURDAY MR BRIDGE SAID THEY APPEARED TO GO WELL AND HE BELIEVED THERE WAS
IN HONG KONG A VERY GOOD CHANCE THAT THE RESTRICTIONS ON EMPLOYMENT WOULD BE LIFTED,
MR
BRIDGE
SAID
THAT
THE
TEMPORARY
RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE PHILIPPINES GOVERNMENT ON THE OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT OF ITS NATIONALS WERE INTENDED TO PROTECT THEM FROM EXPLOITATION.
THEY APPLIED WITH
1.
CONTRACTS
MARCH
TO 1988 FROM EFFECT
1988 AND DID NOT AFFECT 15, ENTERED
FEBRUARY INTO AFTER EXISTING CONTRACT OR RENEWAL OF AN EXISTING CONTRACT BETWEEN THE EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE, HE SAID.
ANY SAME
FAR HAD ANY MR BRIDGE ADDED THAT THE RESTRICTIONS HAD NOT SO
EMPLOYED OR ON MAIDS
IN NOTICEABLE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL JOB MARKET
PROCESS THEIR HONG KONG, THOUGH PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYERS HAD TO RUSH TO APPLICATIONS BEFORE THE CUT OFF DATE ON FEBRUARY 15.
EFFECTS
LIFTED,"
"I THINK WE HAVE GOOD REASON TO HOPE THAT THEIR FUTURE
SAID, THE RECENT DISCUSSIONS MAY ALSO BE MINIMAL, SINCE, AS I HAVE WENT WELL AND IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT THE RESTRICTIONS WILL BE HE SAID.
GREAT MAJORITY OF REFUGEES ARE LAW ABIDING
г
IN THE OPEN CENTRE THE CRIME RATE AMONG VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
A WHOLE HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY HIGHER THAN THAT FOR THE POPULATION AS
THE HON FOR SECURITY, THE FIVE YEARS, OVER THE PAST GEOFFREY BARNES, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SECRETARY
EXPRESSED
TERMS
OF THE
IN WAS
NUMBER THIS COMPARISON OFFENDERS PER 1,000 OF THE POPULATION AGED SEVEN OR OVER, HE SAID.
OF
SELINA CHOW, MR BARNES REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON
VIETNAMESE CAUTIONED THAT A DIRECT COMPARISON WAS DIFFICULT SINCE THE
THE 16 30 REFUGEE POPULATION HAD A HIGHER PROPORTION OF MALES IN AGE RANGE THAN THERE WAS IN THE COMMUNITY GENERALLY.
HIGHER THAN
IN AND SMALL
THE
THE
OPEN GREAT
HE STRESSED THAT ALTHOUGH THE FIGURES REFLECTED A
REFUGEES AMONG USUAL INVOLVEMENT IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
NUMBERS WERE RELATIVELY CENTRE THE MAJORITY OF REFUGEES WERE LAW-ABIDING.
OVERALL
AGE HE ALSO POINTED OUT THAT FIGURES FOR THE OFFENDER RATES BY
IN GROUPS IN HONG KONG SHOWED A RELATIVELY LARGE NUMBER OF OFFENDERS THE 16 30 AGE BRACKET.
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