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shall be counted as a year and three months.

(a) In factories processing or manufacturing lead, mercury, arsenic, phosphorus and acids, and in other chemical laboratories or munitions in- dustries, male workers and employees who have reached the age of 55 and female workers and employees who have reached the age of 45, whose work has involved direct contact with harmful substances, shall receive old-age retirement benefits as provided in Itoms (a) and (b) of the present Article. In calculating their working life and length of service in the enterprise, every year spent on such work shall be counted as a year and six months.

Article 16.

Allowances for childbirth shall be as follows (a) A total of 56 days' leave shall be granted to female workers and employees before and after confinement. Wages shall be paid as usual. (b) For female workers and employees who suffer

from miscarriage occurring within three months, 15 days' leave shall be granted; for cases over three months but under seven months, 30 days' leave shall be granted. Wages shall be paid as

usual.

(c) Those who are still unable to work at the expiry

of confinement leave (whether on account of childbirth or miscarriage) shall be given sick leave if certified by a doctor,

(a) When female workers and employees or the wives of male workers and employees are confined, they shall be given a childbirth allowance from labour insurance funds mounting to the local retail price of five feet of standard red cloth.

Article 17. The following provisions are made in regard to collective labour insurance undertakings:

(a) All workers and employees engaged in enterprises

where labour insurance is enforced shall have the right of enjoying the facilities provided by collective labour insurance undertakings. Details shall be provided by the A. C. F. L.;

(b) All collective labour insurance undertakings ahall

be planned and sponsored by the A.C.F.L. who may entrust them to local trade union organisations or industrial unions. Such undertakings shall include the following categories of services.

(i) Santoria:

ii Homes for disabled persons.

(iii Homes for old people.

(iv) Rest homes.

(v) Orphanges.

Details shall be provided by the A. C.F.L.

Article 18. In enterprises where labour insurance is in force, Workers and employees who are not union members