W(B)L. 51-7433
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Mrs. L.M. Jeger, M.P.
House of Commons
Type 1 +
From
G.I. BROWN
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 13th November.
2. 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 their 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.
3. 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, not only to this country but
also back to Hong Kong, in part at least. He is
particularly aggrieved that this should be required in
the
cases where a worker walks out or terminates his employment
without working the full period of the contract.
4. To deal first with the employer's liability to pay the
alien worker's passage to this country. The model
contract, which itself has no legal force but suggests
whose inclusion
a form of words for clauses which would meet the
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