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Thank you for your letter of 8th February about
overtime in Hong Kong.
I could understand your concern if the new
regulations made it obligatory for women and young persons
in Hong Kong industry
permitted.
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work the longer hours of overtime
I must emphasise that it is only the maximum limits
on overtime which are being raised, temporarily. There
is no compulsion, other than economic pressures possibly,
in fact, on women and young persons to work/any overtime;
the trend on overtime worked over the last year has been
downward. Secondly, it is important to remember that
overtime is expensive to the employer and he may, therefore,
be expected to be sparing in/its use; on these grounds we
doubt whether the maximum permitted hours of overtime will
be worked, particularly in the later stages of the phased
programme.
Another point which is easy to overlook is that large
numbers of women and young persons are employed on shift
work where overtime is not possible. This is so in the
spinning and weaving industries and, in the quarter ending
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30th September 1967, 67,650 women and young persons were out of a tolay of some 207,500 employed in all industries employed on shift work, In the textile industry,
therefore, the workers who may wish to increase overtime
only
will be those engaged in the manufacture of garments and
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their number is relatively small,
15. As you said in your letter, the main reason for
permitting increased overtime was to prevent a severe
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