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Hon.Colonial Secretary.
I very respectfully advise that the Secretary
of State be asked to re-consider his direction with regard
to the amendment of section 5 of the Employers and Servants
Ordinance 1902.
Employers and their servants cannot, from the
object and nature of the contract between them, be placed
upon exactly the same footing with respect to terminating
the contract without notice.
A servant engaged by the month whether as a
domestic or as an industrial or other servant whose service
is suddenly terminated by his master and who is thereupon
paid whatever may then be due to him, and a month's wages
as well, gets from his master all he could have got if he
had had a full month's notice to terminate his contract of
service and he is therefore fully compensated for the loss
of service; for he is thereby secured from loss while seek-
ing another engagement. Indeed should be succeed in obtain-
ing fresh employment at once he will be better off than he
would have been had he been forced to remain in the old
service and work out the notice for in such case the month's
wages in lieu of notice will be so much to the good while he will be earning fresh wages.
On the other hand a master (at least where
the servant is other than a domestic servant) must have
labour to carry on his business and naturally looks to
make
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