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MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1yöy
PLAN TO COMPENSATE WORKERS FOR HEARING LOSS
TO A REVISED FROM WORKERS SUFFERING
THE LABOUR ADVISORY BOARD TODAY (MONDAY) AGREED
FOR A PROPOSAL
COMPENSATION SCHEME FOR OCCUPATIONAL NOISE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS.
BEEN ACCEPTED IN PRINCIPLE BY THE PROPOSED SCHEME HAD
MEMBERS HELD DIFFERENT VIEWS BOARD AT ITS PREVIOUS MEETING BUT CERTAIN PROVISIONS AND THE CHAIRMAN THEN UNDERTOOK TO RE-EXAMINE IT.
UNDER THE REVISED
THE
ON
QUALIFYING SERVICE OF AN THE ORIGINAL
PROPOSAL, THE
APPLICANT
BE FOR
WOULD COMPENSATION
REDUCED FROM PROPOSAL OF 20 YEARS' TO 10 YEARS' EMPLOYMENT IN A NOISY HONG KONG,
INDUSTRY IN
HE WOULD ALSO HAVE TO HAVE A PERIOD OF CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT IN THE DATE HONG KONG IN A NOISY OCCUPATION WITHIN THE 24 MONTHS BEFORE
12 MONTHS PRECEEDING OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCHEME, OR WITHIN THE THE CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION.
ΤΟ APPLICATION
FOR
COMPENSATION HAD
THE AGE LIMIT RELATING BEEN REMOVED UNDER THE REVISED PROPOSAL.
TOTAL
BE NOT MORE THAN 48 SUBJECT TO A MAXIMUM OF
THE MAXIMUM LEVEL OF COMPENSATION WILL
DISABILITY MONTHS' EARNINGS FOR $394,000.
THE
BOARD THEN
CONSIDERED A PROPOSAL REGULATIONS ON PROTECTION OF WORKERS' HEARING.
FOR A NEW
SET OF
OF THE THE NOISE CONTROL CONCEPTS
PROPOSED REGULATIONS ARE "ACTION LEVELS", EACH BASED ON THREE
REQUIRING SPECIFIED SAFETY PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN BY BOTH THE EMPLOYER AND THE EMPLOYEE.
AFTER
MEMBERS DISCUSSION, SOME
REGULATIONS.
AGREED
ΤΟ
THE
PROPOSED
THE ALSO DISCUSSED AT TODAY'S MEETING WAS A PROPOSAL TO REMOVE
ΤΟ AN "CROSS-HARBOUR" PROVISION IN THE EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE RELATING
CHANGE IN THE PLACE EMPLOYEE'S ENTITLEMENT TO SEVERANCE PAY UPON A
OF EMPLOYMENT.
CROSS-HARBOUR PUBLIC TRANSPORT THE PROPOSAL WAS MADE BECAUSE
ESPECIALLY 1974,
WITH THE RECENT HAD IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE
TUNNEL. CROSS-HARBOUR
WHETHER OR NOT THE OPENING OF THE EASTERN
IS NO LONGER CHANGE OF WORKPLACE INVOLVES MOVING ACROSS THE HARBOUR MEANINGFUL.
EMPLOYEE
OF WORKPLACE WITHOUT DISMISSAL UNDER THE PROPOSAL, A CHANGE
PAYMENT TO SEVERANCE
UNLESS DOES NOT ENTITLE AN
SUCH A ESTABLISH CHANGE CAUSES UNDUE HARDSHIP TO HIM SUFFICIENTLY SEVERE TO
TO IN SECTION 31D(1)(C) A CONSTRUCTIVE DISMISSAL REFERRED ORDINANCE.
OF THE
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