TNAG-0089-FCO40-125-Social-welfare-working-conditions-in-Hong-Kong-1968 — Page 133

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P.Q.974/1.367

information on the hours of work of all

workers, but a substantial mmber of industries do generally observe an eight-hour working day, among them the cotton spinning, woaving and building industries, publie utilities and public transport, which together employ some 200,000 persons out of the estimated 500,000 to whom the Convention would apply.

working wa kowover, is in zaang

cages 56 hours becaume, exaspt in Base of women and young persons, a weekly rest day is not mantemary. Furthermore, agroosents regarding hours of work usally set no limits on industrial enterprises generally adopt working hours which conform to the provisions of Article 2.

Government-operated

than with

forkers' organisations are more concerned with kours of work, and have bom reluctant to take setion for shorter hourS partly because of their maerical weakness and partly because of the fear that redused working hours would mean reduced earnings. Høvertkalomm their possible role in improving hours of work is emphasised in the

The Labour Labour Department's trade union education progr#36» Department, in addition to bearing the responsibility for enforcing the relevant regulations, is willing to assist workers or their organisations in negotiating now contracts and securing the fulfilment of existing ones. As part of a sustained effort to persuade amplayers to adopt a policy of progressive raduation of hours of work, it not up in May 1965, under the shairmanably of the Commissioner of Labour, a working party composed of representatives of employers' organisations

ork of women and young to consider farther reductions in the hours of

The report of the working party is in course of preparation

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