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SHFIDENIA:
Brief prepared by the Commissioner of Labour
for His Excellency the Governor
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Hours of work for women and young
persons in industrial employment
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The Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations
1958 were approved by resolution of Legislative Council and became
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effective on lat January 1959. These basically limited hours of
work of women and young persons in industrial employment to 60 a week. It was qtated in Legislative Council that these were the firut stops in the implementation of Govornmont's policy to raise minimum standards of employment generally.
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For the past eight years attempts have been made to take further stepa. They have been frustrated, for one reason or another, by the opposition of employers! associations to any change. A Working Party, representing the four major employers' associations recommended no immediate change in 1966 but the chairman, the then Commissioner of Labour presented a minority report proposing legislation for selected industries. When these reports were considered in Executive Council, the Commissioner of Labour was authorized to approach the Labour Advisory Board for advice on reducing hours of work in specific industries to 48 per week.. There was complete disagreement between representatives of workers and employers on the proposals. Prior to the meeting of the Labour Advisory Board, representatives of employers' organizations sought an interview with the Commissioner of Labour and indicated that, while they opposed legislation for selected industries, they would be prepared to cooperate in the preparation of a scheme for the phased reduction of working hours throughout all industries with the ultimate aim of a standard wook of 48 hours. Subsequently, disturbances broke out and
delayed consideration of the subject. Considerable local opinion
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