Annual report on North Borneo / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
[1949]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on North Borneo / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 6 Night Work (Young Persons) (Industry) Convention, 1919. 7 Minimum Age (Sea) Convention, 1920. 8 Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920. 11 Right of Association (Agriculture) Convention, 1921. 15 Minimum Age (Trimmers & Stokers) Convention, 1921. 16 Medical Examination of Young Persons (Sea) Convention, 1921. 26 Minimum Wage-fixing Machinery Convention, 1928. 29 Forced Labour Convention, 1930. 41 Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1934. 50 Recruiting of Indigenous Workers Convention, 1936. 64 Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Conven¬ tion, 1939. 65 Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939. (b) Applied with modification. No. 63 Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work Convention, 1938. 74 Certification of Able Seamen Convention, 1946. (c) Inapplicable owing to the local conditions. Fifteen Conventions comprising, generally, those framed for the specialised problems of highly industrialised western countries, as, for example, the Conventions relating to unemployment and to hours of work in automatic sheet-glass works. (d) Decision on application reserved. This category is a temporary one only, and action has been postponed pending the enactment of legislation. These three Conventions relate to workmen’s compensation and legislation on that subject was under consideration at the end of the year. In addition to the above, certain newer Conventions have been studied in accordance with requests made by His Majesty’s Government, and it has been decided that in the event of ratification, certain of the Conven¬ tions could be applied to North Borneo: (a) Without modification. No. 84 Right of Association (Non-metropolitan Territories) Con¬ vention, 1947. 86 Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Con¬ vention, 1947. 89 Night Work of Women Convention (Revised), 1948. (b) With modification. No. 81 Labour Inspection Convention, 1947. 82 Social Policy (Non-metropolitan Territories) Convention, *947- 85 Labour Inspectorates (Non-metropolitan Territories) Con¬ vention, 1947. 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948. (c) Inapplicable owing to the local conditions. No. 88 Employment Service Convention, 1948.