5

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1989

"IN ORDER TO BE SURE OF FULL COMPLIANCE IN THE THE GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE HAD TO LEGISLATE, HE SAID.

14

PRIVATE SECTOR

NOT CONVINCED GOVERNMENT TO COVENANT

WAS MR BRIDGE POINTED OUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT THAT THIS WAS NECESSARY AND HAD THEREFORE ASKED THE UK MAKE THE APPROPRIATE RESERVATION, IN THE RATIFICATION OF THE IN 1976.

MEN

FOR EQUAL WORK SINCE THEN THE QUESTION OF EQUAL PAY FOR

BEEN REVIEWED TWICE, IN AND WOMEN HAD

THE CONTEXT OF REVIEWING AND 1986, HR INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION CONVENTIONS, IN 1978

SAID.

IN

SUCH

INDUSTRY AND SALARIES MR BRIDGE ADDED THAT WAGE RATES IN

FORCES MARKET

WITH REFERENCE TO COMMERCE WERE DETERMINED BY FACTORS AS JOB NATURE, LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY, QUALIFICATIONS, ETC.

"IT DID NOT THEREFORE SEEM INTERVENE," HE NOTED.

NECESSARY FOR THE

GOVERNMENT

TO

NEVERTHELESS, RE ASSURED MEMBERS

WOULD BE ASKED TO KEEP THE SITUATION UNDER REGULAR REVIEW.

THAT THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT

NON-COMMONWEALTH DOCTORS FOR CENTRES UNDER STUDY

THE GOVERNMENT WILL NEED TO ADDRESS THE

SHOULD THERE

OF

GENERAL PRINCIPLE

WHETHER

BE SPECIAL

FOR PROVISION

NON-COMMONWEALTH OF VIETNAMESE DOCTORS

THE CONFINES STRICTLY WITHIN PRACTISE CENTRES, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON GEOFFREY BARNES, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

ΤΟ

MR BARNES

HIGH COMMISSIONER

SAID IT

WAS

CLEARLY DESIRABLE FOR REFUGEES

(UNHCR)

THAT

THE UNITED THE BELGIAN

AND

NATIONS MEDICAL CHARITY, MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (MSF), SHOULD BE EVERY

OPERATIONAL AND

WAY POSSIBLE

TO

ASSUME

FULL

HELPED IN FINANCIAL

RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL SERVICES IN VIETNAMESE CENTRES.

MEDICAL RESOURCES SHOULD NEEDS IN NOT BE DIVERTED FROM SERVING THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG BY THE THE VIETNAMESE CENTRES.

GOVERNMENT'S HE ALSO BELIEVED THAT

ΤΟ PRACTISE

THE QUESTION OF ALLOWING NON-COMMONWEALTH DOCTORS

FURTHER, CONSIDERED IN THESE CENTRES WOULD BE

POSSIBLE, SINCE THE LIKELY NEED FOR ADDITIONAL ALREADY APPARENT, MR BARNES SAID.

AND AS MEDICAL

URGENTLY SERVICES

AS WAS

REPLYING TO

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