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Emergency relief for industrial accident victims' families

Families of the six workers killed as a result of the collapse of a platform on the Rambler Channel Bridge construction site in Kwai Chung have each been offered $5,000 in emergency relief from the General Chinese Charities Fund by the Kwai Tsing District Office this (Friday) afternoon.

Giving the cash relief and offering his condolences to the families, the Kwai Tsing District Officer, Mr Ngai Wing-chit, said staff of the district office and other concerned government departments would keep close contact with them to see if any further assistance was needed.

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Public views on age discrimination in employment sought

A two-month consultation to solicit public views on age discrimination in employment was started today (Friday) by the Government.

This followed a study conducted by an interdepartmental working group set up last year in the light of concerns expressed over possible discrimination of this kind.

Speaking at a press conference to launch the public consultation, the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mr Joseph W P Wong, said the study concentrated on the possible age discrimination in employment which was the main concern, but members of the public were free to express their views on any other aspects of possible age discrimination.

Mr Wong noted that the study covered four main areas.

"The first of these was statistical analysis, where two separate exercises were undertaken.

"One exercise examined the precentage of newspaper job advertisements which mentioned age as a job requirement. During the three survey over a six month period from July 1995 to January 1996, the number of such advertisements remained below 20 per cent.

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