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3. Elderly Services THE CHRISTIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE
a. 3 Social Centres
b. 3 Hostels 1. Labour Legislation
c. 1Home Help team During the past year, the CIC was mainly involved

4. Family Services in helping to bring about the following amendments
a. 1interdisciplinary counselling team to labour laws:— (1) an increase in employees*

b. 1Family Life Education unit compensation, a shortening of the time for procedures
c. 3 Foster Care units and the introduction of compulsory insurance. (2)
5. Community Services a classification of additional occupational diseases.
a. 3 Community Development teams (3) an increase in the monthly wage ceiling to $8,500
b. 1Half-way Centre for ex-addicts for non-manual employees protected by the Employ­

c. Medical, Dental and Eye Clinics ment Ordinance. (4) a bill to amend provisions on
6. Education severance payment. (5) a draft of a bill for a wage
a. Pui Oi Special School security fund. (6) the adoption of a 120-day sick
b. Kwun Tong Vocational Training Centre leave policy.
c. Adult Education Programmes
7. Migration Services 2. Labour Dispute Counselling
a. Vietnamese Refugee Section The CIC dealt with dispute cases through its
b. Stateless European Section three offices in Tsimshatsui, West Kowloon and
c. Chinese Section Kwun Tong. Except on Sundays, the hot-line service
(As HKCS is no longer an international service ran from 9 a.m. to 9 a.m. in order to provide a more
agency, and as the need for migration services is convenient counselling service. More in-depth training
declining, we have decided to gradually phase and reference materials were provided for workers so
out these migration services by 1985). that more and more of them could become
independent counsellors.

3. Labour Education
Labour education courses were mainly conducted
at West Kowloon and Kwun Tong Community
Churches. The second certificate course for labour
organizers was completed at the end of 1983, and a
follow-up course on a workers’ development scheme,
was then organized.

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