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Friday, July 20, 1973

A large number of minor grievances were allowed to drop by the

complainants after the initial complaint, and a number of cases which began

late in the quarter were carried over into July before settlement.

During the quarter the service responded to 4,448 consultations

and enquiries initiated by workers and employers.

Mr. Tsui said: "As part of our continuing effort to improve

relationships between management and workers, officers of the Labour Relations

Service visited 49 industrial and commercial establishments during the

quarter to encourage management to introduce joint consultative arrangements,

to prepare written contracts of employment, and to work out grievance

procedures in order to preserve industrial harmony.

"We feel that such consultative machinery is vital to good management-

employee relations, and is the best possible way of preventing disputes

which mean loss of wages to workers and loss of profits to management."

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