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TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1994
ASSISTANT LABOUR OFFICERS GET SPECIAL TRAINING
THEY
IN 1993 FOR
THEY
ARRANGED SOME 94,200 CONSULTATION NEFTINGS AND ENQUIRIES TENS OF THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS.
HANDLED MORE THAN 18,000 LABOUR DISPUTES AND CLAIMS WITH
SIGNIFICANT RESULTS, AND ORGANISED OR TOOK PART IN 900 LABOUR RELATIONS PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE SAME YEAR.
THEY ARF THE 130 OFFICERS FROM THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT'S RELATIONS DIVISION
(LRD).
LABOUR
THESF
IMAGINE ALL THESE SERVICES WERE ACTUALLA PROVIDED BY OFFICERS, IT WOULD NOT BE DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND How HECTIC THEIR WORK HAD BEEN AND WILL BE IN THE YEARS AHEAD,
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YET THEY KEEP ON LOOKING FOR IMPROVEMENIS TO MEET THE CHANGING EXPECTATIONS. AND DEMANDS OF THEIR · USTOMERS THE A MILLION WORKFORCE AND MANY OTHER MEMBERS OF DIE PUBLIC WHO ARF EAGER TO KNOW MORE ABOUT EMPLOYMENT LAWS AND LABOUR RELATIOIS INFORMATION.
AMONG THE OFFICERS PROVIDING CONCELLATION SERVICE FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF WAGE CLAIMS AND LABOUR DISPUTES AND PROMOTING HARMONIOUS LABOUR RELATIONS, SOME 30 OF THEM ARE IN THE JUNIOR RANK OF ASSISTANT LABOUR OFFICERS WHOSE CHANCES OF EXPOSURE MAY NOT BE TOO EXTENSIVE VIEW OF THEIR RELATIVELY SHORT SERVICE IN THE GRADF.
IN
HOWEVER, JUNIOR OFFICERS WORKING IN THE LRD OR NEWCOMERS TO THI BE ABLE TO EQUIP THEYSPLAYS PIPIK TO PERFORN THEIR A SPECIALLY DESIGNED VID COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING
DIVISION WILL DUTIES UNDER PROGRAMME.
WITH A THEME OF *** FOTAL APPROACHI TO THE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT" OF ASSISTANT LABOUR OFFICERS, THIS IN-SERVICE PROGRAMNE IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE JUNTOR OFFICERS WITH CONTINUOUS TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN ALL RELEVANT ASPECTS OF WORK THROUGHOUT THEIR SERVING PERIOD IN THE LRD.
ITIES. ON TOP OF THE
THE PROGRAMME COMPRISES SIX PARTS OF LIST IS THE PROVISION OF ON-GOING BRIEFING SESSIONS ON SPECIFIC TOPICS WHICH INCLUDE CONCILIATION SKIES, TECHNIQUES. IN ANSWERING PNQUIRIES FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, PROSECUTION PROCEDURES AND THE HANDL ENG OF FOREIGN DOMESTIC HELPERS AND IMPORTED WORKERS.
OTHER TOPICS ARE RELATED TO THE LEGAL PROCEDURES OF THE LABOUR THE
TRIBUNAL, TRADE UNIONS IN HONG KONG, COMMON LAN PRINCIPLES, EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE AND THE COMPANIES AND FANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE,
IN ORDER TO CREATE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE EXPOSURE ASSISTANT LABOUR OFFICERS, LABOUR OFFICERS IN THE LRD WILL ASK THEIR JUNIOR OFFICERS TO JOIN THEM IN PROMOTIONAL VISITS, TO SIT IN DURING MAJOR DISPUTES AND TO HANDLE SOME OF THE CASES INVOLV ENG WORKERS.
IMPORTED
/LABOUR OFFICERS