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Report on Hong Kong's Participation

in the 80th Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, June 1993

Introduction

(ILC)

The 80th Session of the International Labour Conference was held in Geneva from 2 to 23 June 1993. Hong Kong participated in the Conference in the capacity as advisers to the United Kingdom Delegation.

made up of a tripartite team

The Hong Kong delegation was comprising of the following :-

2.

(i)

Mr MAK Sai-yiu

3.

(ii)

(iii)

Labour Department

Adviser to the UK Government delegates

Mr Michael Somerville

The Employers' Federation of Hong Kong Adviser to the UK Employers' delegates

Mr LEUNG Fu-wah

The Hong Kong and Kowloon Rubber and Plastic Workers

General Union

Adviser to the UK Workers' delegates

This was the eighth year in which a tripartite team from Hong Kong attended the Conference.

The 80th Session of the International Labour Conference

4.

was

attended by

some

2,000

delegates

The Conference

from governments, employers' and workers' organisations from 165 member states. Abdel-Hak Saleh, Minister of Manpower and Training of Egypt and government delegate, was unanimously elected president of the Conference. Mr Ashraf Tabani, Mr George Badey, government delegate of Belarus, employer delegate of Pakistan and Mr Bustos Huerta, workers delegate of Chile, were unanimously elected vice-presidents.

Agenda of the Conference

5.

The agenda of the Conference was as follows :-

I. Reports of the Governing Body and of the Director-General;

II.

III.

Programme and budget proposals and other financial questions;

Information and reports on the application of Conventions and Recommendations;