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of compiling in due course a comprehensive ordinance dealing with the main
problems of employment.
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workers concerned redundancy.
Mr. Hetherington said another measure affecting the welfare of many
He hoped to be able to recommend statutory
entitlements for redundancy payments based on length of service and othor
relevant considerations.
A third measure, which might eventually become part of the proposed
employment ordinance, concerned fee-charging employment agencies. It would introduce comprehensive measures of supervision over all activities of those agencies to protect workers from unscrupulous exploitation.
initial safeguards would be included in the employment bill.
Overseas Employment Moasure
Some
A fourth related measure would deal with the interests of workers
going overseas for employment under contract.
Mr. Hetherington said that a second major piece of legislation concerning the welfare of large numbers of workers which he was examining,
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involved the Workers' Componsation Ordinanco.
Tho Commissionor said it was his intention to put forward proposals
to amond tho oxisting logislation in two stages.
Tho first bill doals with the oxtonsion of tho covorago of axisting
provisions in torms of both monthly incomo and occupations, tho question of compulsory insurance in selected dangerous trades, the bonofits for those who become incapacitated permanently, and the rate of poriodical paymonts in the light of rocommendations of tho Intornational Labour Organisation and
ostablishod practice elsewhere.
"Subsequently, I propose to deal in a second bill with the supply
of prostheses and hospitalisation excluding out-patient treatment.
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