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(b) Prosecutions
(1) At present, employers are prosecuted in respect of each occasion on which they offend, whereas in the U.K. they are prosecuted in respect of each person illegally employed. It is suggested that the U.K. practice should be followed in Hong Kong.
(2) This would require an amendment to the law.
Weekly Day of Rest
(1) While it is not feasible to implement the I.L.O. Convention fully, it would be possible to write into a law a provision
to the effect that no worker (man, woman or young person) could be compelled to work on seven days a week;
(2) If a worker were willing to be so employed, he should be paid
at a higher rate of wages
(3) This provision might start in industry, but should be extensible
to other forms of employment;
(4) This would require new legislation.
Outworkers
(1) There is reason to think that these workers require protection so far as their rates of pay are concerned (see Part B below), (2) This would require new legislation.
Non-industrial Employment
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(1) Leaving aside agriculture and domestic service for the present,
there is almost certainly room for protective legislation, at least for women and young people, employed in shops, hotels, restaurants, clubs, transport, places of entertainment, offices etc. wages, hours of work, physical conditions (safety, health and welfare) - see also Part B below;
(2) This would require new legislation.
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Social Security
(1) The introduction of certain forms of social security should be
a fund considered, e.g. a national provident fund for old age; for maternity benefits, to which employers only would contribute, and from which allowances could be paid to women during absence. schemes under those two headings from work owing to maternity; could be administered together, though the funds would be separate; and workmen's compensation could ultimately also be grouped under the same administrative umbrella;
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(2) This would require new legislation.
(See also Fart B.)
B.
SURVEYS
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In the past the Labour Department has made some excellent and detailed
hours of work, *wages, surveys of conditions in certain industries overtime-pay, days of rest, public holidays, maternity leave, fringe
These, benefits of various kinds, such as medical care and so on. or an up-to-date version of them, should make it possible to decide
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