W(B)L 51-74 33
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
Тави
вра
Registry No.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
Mrs. L.M. Jeger, House of Commons.
M.P.,
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext:
Department
I am now able to let you have my further comments
on the representation by Mr. Burn enclosed with your
letter of 13 November.
To correct a possible misapprehension, I ought
first of all to explain that this is not, as your letter
suggests, a case of a firm meeting difficulties in
prolonged attempts to clarify its position. It is a
case rather, of the firm's unwillingness to recognise the
difficulties which make it impossible for the Hong Kong
Government to agree to contracts for the employment of
alien Chinese workers in this country being made more
favourable to the employer, so far as passage expenses
to and from this country are concerned.
No
Mr. Burn himself says that his only difficulty is
over the question of passages, and by this we understand
him to be referring to the employers' liability, under
contracts attested by the Commissioner of Labour, to pay
the alien workers' passages back to Hong Kong, in part at
least, as well as to this country. He is particularly laggrieved
agreed that this should be required in cases where the
worker walks out or terminates his employment without
wrking the full period of the contract.
5. now turn to
Tonsider tires the employer's liability to pay
the alien worker's
passage to this country. The model
nota dowenliferanded by stat la tramand
itself is no legal forec, but suggest"
contract which itself in
味 off which
checking ing matters
form of words for clauses/ whose inclusion the
Commissioner of Labour is bound by statute to insist upon;
contains a clause which makes provision for the
elip
を
/termination
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.