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be made aware of their

responsibilities by the posting of

notices.

So important was this latter provision

regarded that penalties were prepared for

employers who failed to disply such

notices.

Particular attention was also

drawn to the need to establish joint

consultative and negotiating machinery in

all essential services on the grounds that

where the right of workers to withdraw

their labour has been restricted, there

exists a special obligation on the

employer to ensure that there exist

adequate arrangements for the settlement

of disputes and the redress of grievances.

In a subsequent despatch it was recommended

that provision should be included for the

notification of a collective withdrawal

of labour. (I am enclosing for ease of

reference copies of the relevant despatches

and their accompanying memoranda and draft

texts, i.e. Circular Despatch No.629/60 of

13 June 1960 and Circular Despatch No.505/6

of 17 May 1961).

3. Seen against this background, and

the assurance of the Commissioner of

Labour to the Legislative Council on

20 December 1967 that permanent legislation

was intended inter alia to protect the

interests of those involved in genuine

trade disputes, the legislation now put

forward for consideration exhibits, you

gree

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file

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