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MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1yöy

PLAN TO COMPENSATE WORKERS FOR HEARING LOSS

TO A REVISED FROM WORKERS SUFFERING

THE LABOUR ADVISORY BOARD TODAY (MONDAY) AGREED

FOR A PROPOSAL

COMPENSATION SCHEME FOR OCCUPATIONAL NOISE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS.

BEEN ACCEPTED IN PRINCIPLE BY THE PROPOSED SCHEME HAD

MEMBERS HELD DIFFERENT VIEWS BOARD AT ITS PREVIOUS MEETING BUT CERTAIN PROVISIONS AND THE CHAIRMAN THEN UNDERTOOK TO RE-EXAMINE IT.

UNDER THE REVISED

THE

ON

QUALIFYING SERVICE OF AN THE ORIGINAL

PROPOSAL, THE

APPLICANT

BE FOR

WOULD COMPENSATION

REDUCED FROM PROPOSAL OF 20 YEARS' TO 10 YEARS' EMPLOYMENT IN A NOISY HONG KONG,

INDUSTRY IN

HE WOULD ALSO HAVE TO HAVE A PERIOD OF CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT IN THE DATE HONG KONG IN A NOISY OCCUPATION WITHIN THE 24 MONTHS BEFORE

12 MONTHS PRECEEDING OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCHEME, OR WITHIN THE THE CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION.

ΤΟ APPLICATION

FOR

COMPENSATION HAD

THE AGE LIMIT RELATING BEEN REMOVED UNDER THE REVISED PROPOSAL.

TOTAL

BE NOT MORE THAN 48 SUBJECT TO A MAXIMUM OF

THE MAXIMUM LEVEL OF COMPENSATION WILL

DISABILITY MONTHS' EARNINGS FOR $394,000.

THE

BOARD THEN

CONSIDERED A PROPOSAL REGULATIONS ON PROTECTION OF WORKERS' HEARING.

FOR A NEW

SET OF

OF THE THE NOISE CONTROL CONCEPTS

PROPOSED REGULATIONS ARE "ACTION LEVELS", EACH BASED ON THREE

REQUIRING SPECIFIED SAFETY PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN BY BOTH THE EMPLOYER AND THE EMPLOYEE.

AFTER

MEMBERS DISCUSSION, SOME

REGULATIONS.

AGREED

ΤΟ

THE

PROPOSED

THE ALSO DISCUSSED AT TODAY'S MEETING WAS A PROPOSAL TO REMOVE

ΤΟ AN "CROSS-HARBOUR" PROVISION IN THE EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE RELATING

CHANGE IN THE PLACE EMPLOYEE'S ENTITLEMENT TO SEVERANCE PAY UPON A

OF EMPLOYMENT.

CROSS-HARBOUR PUBLIC TRANSPORT THE PROPOSAL WAS MADE BECAUSE

ESPECIALLY 1974,

WITH THE RECENT HAD IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE

TUNNEL. CROSS-HARBOUR

WHETHER OR NOT THE OPENING OF THE EASTERN

IS NO LONGER CHANGE OF WORKPLACE INVOLVES MOVING ACROSS THE HARBOUR MEANINGFUL.

EMPLOYEE

OF WORKPLACE WITHOUT DISMISSAL UNDER THE PROPOSAL, A CHANGE

PAYMENT TO SEVERANCE

UNLESS DOES NOT ENTITLE AN

SUCH A ESTABLISH CHANGE CAUSES UNDUE HARDSHIP TO HIM SUFFICIENTLY SEVERE TO

TO IN SECTION 31D(1)(C) A CONSTRUCTIVE DISMISSAL REFERRED ORDINANCE.

OF THE

/BOME MEMBERS .....