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ARTICLE 6(2)
A Youth Employment Advisory Service has been in force since 1958. The functions of this service include the dissemination of carcers information and the delivery and organization of career talks to some 55,000 secondary school students each year. The group talks are supplemented by regular careers seminars and occasional careers exhibitions. A Local Employment Service arranges for job-seekers of all ages to be introduced to prospective 'employers for selection interview.
As regards industrial training, the Hong Kong Training Council has been appointed to advise the Governor on measures necessary to ensure a comprehensive system of training geared to meet the developing needs of Hong Kong's economy. It is anticipated that ten industry training boards will be established to deal with the training problems of ten major industries in Hong Kong. Five committees dealing with matters common to more than one industry such as apprenticeship, instructor-training, technical institutes, translation and vocation training have been established. In addition to the existing Morrison Hill Technical Institute, which offers complementary technical education on a day-release basis to apprentices, four more technical institutes have been planned, two of which are scheduled for completion in 1975 and the remaining two in 1976 and 1977 respectively. Facilities for training higher level technicians and technologists at the Hong Kong Polytechnic are being expanded to provide 8,000 full time and 20,000 part time places by 1980.
ARTICLE 7(a)
It is established policy that everyone should be allowed to enjoy "
just and favourable conditions of work" but expressions such as "fair wages" and "decent living", unless properly defined, are open to various interpretations, Nevertheless, wages in Hong Kong are among the highest in the Far East, second only to Japan.
At present no statutory regulations on wages are in operation in Hong Kong. The Trade Boards Ordinance gives the Governor in Council power to fix minimum rates of wages for any trade on the recommendation of trade boards on which the representatives of both employers. and works sit. It has not yet been necessary to set up a trade board under this Ordinance.
As regards "decent living", a minimum acceptable level of subsistance for a person living alone or for a family has been established under the Public Assistance Scheme. Cash grants are made to bring the income and other resources of those eligible to this level which will depend on
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