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SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1976

$13M PAID OUT TO WORKERS IN 1975

EMPLOYERS PAID MEARLY $13 BILION TO 12,753 EMPLOYEES LAST YEAR IN LABOUR-HANACEMENT DISPUTES VHICH WERE SETTLED THROUGH THE

(LRS). EFFORTS OF THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT'S LABOUR RELATIONS SERVICE THIS COMPARED WITH $10 MILLION IN 1974.

PAID IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE, ALMOST HALF OF THE TOTAL, OR $6,213,272, FRE SEVERANCE PAYMENTS TO 9,778 EMPLOYEES RENDERED REDUNDANT BY CIRCUMSTADO)S OF RECESSION.

THE REMAIDER WAS PAID AS ARREARS OF WAGES, PAYMENT IN LIEU OF NOTICE, STATUTORY HOLIDAY PAY, LOYUS AND OTHER SINN DUE TO EMPLOYFUS.

COMMENTING ON THESE STATISTICS, THE CHIEF LABOUR OFFICER, (LABOUR RELATIONS), MR. TSUI TIL-FOOK, SAID 1975 AS A TERCRALLE YEAR IN THE ANNALS OF HONG KONG'S LABOUR RELATIONS.

+ IT MARKED THE END OF A LONG, TRYING PERIOD OF RECESSION BROUGHT OF LY KALD-WIDE ECONSTIC DIFFICULTIES, SO COURAGEOUSLY ENDURED TY EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYED IN ALL THE TRADES AND INDUSTRIES AFFECTED,

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+IT WAS ALSO A YEAR OF TRETIENDOUS INVOLVEMENT AND CONSIDERALLE SUCCESS FOR THE LADOUR RELATIONS VRVICE,+ HE SAID.

HAR IT HOT BEEN FOR THE TIMIY ENACTMENT OF THE SEVERANCE PAY LEGISLATION P. AUGUST 1974, SAJ, isul, THE RETREECHMENT LAST YEAR WOHL J HAVE RESULTED IN HATY JERIOUS DISPUTES AND IFFLICTED HARDSHIP ON RETRESCHEU EMPLOYER „PO THEIR FAMILIES.

+FORTUNATELY SEVERANCE PAYMENTS UMBER THE EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE HCLPED FARY SUCH ELPLOYEES TIDE OVER FRAANCIAL DIFFICULTIES UNTIL SUCH TIMES AS REY COULD FIFO BGLOYGERT AGATE, TUIS AVOIDING SERIOUS MIC: 97%,,* be ADVER,

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U REVIECIER THE WORK OF THE LL, IN 1975, MR. TSUI SAID THE

AND CONSULTATIONS, AN TECHCASE SERVICE JALDL 29 43,605, ENQUIRIES

OF 11,40: CAS S OR S5 PER CLIT CO. PARED VITA 1974.

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+AS EXPECTED, MOST OF THE MATTERS RELATED TO PROBLEMS ARISING ELE. THE RECLSSION, AND THE KERATNAIK CONCELPED I ERSONNEL PALACETENT AD YORIOUS Adviči, of the batoYKENT UNDIHALOS, +

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DESPITE THE RECESSION OULY 17,400 NAN-DAYS WERE LOST fil

CAKTIR. DAYS LT 1 22 STOPPAGES 17 STAINLES, ONPARED WITH 10,7 DURING 1978, A 50,001 DAYS IN 54 STOPPAGES IN 1973 PRIOR TO THE RECUSTOM,

HE SAID