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"Employers and employees should also make prior agreements on conditions under which employees should return to work when rainstorm warnings are lowered during working hours."

However, employers are urged to adopt a flexible approach towards resumption of duty as some employees may have difficulties in returning to work.

"As rainstorms are natural calamities, due consideration should also be given to employees who are absent from or late for work so that their earnings, including attendance bonus, are not adversely affected," Mrs Lai said,

Mrs Lai said the Employees' Compensation Ordinance had been amended to provide compensation to workers who were injured while travelling between their place of residence and their place of work when the Red or Black Rainstorm Warning was issued.

Employers or employees who require assistance are welcome to approach the nearest Labour Relations Service branch office.

End/Monday, July 3, 1995

Public Records Office on the move

The Public Records Office and its archives at 2 Murray Road, Central, will move to the fifth and sixth floor of Tuen Mun Government Storage Centre, 1 San Yick Lane, Tuen Mun, starting from this week.

The Office will be temporary closed to the public until 2 pm on July 20 to allow time for the packing and unpacking of the archival records, all of which require very careful handling, a spokesman for the Government Records Service said today (Monday).

He said members of the public could make use of the Town Reading Centre on the sixth floor of Central Government Offices, West Wing, Lower Albert Road.

"The Centre holds a good collection of the most popular archival records, and the majority of visitors are likely to be able to readily find what they need there," he said.

The move of the archives to Tuen Mun is a temporary measure pending the completion of a permanent Public Records Building in Kwun Tong in mid-1997.

End/Monday, July 3, 1995