Long Working Hours

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Long Working Hours: The elements for government to postpone limiting working hours in Hong Kong It is a terrible time to waste three years for discussing the limit of working hours in Hong Kong. Standard working hours has been launched by different governments in many international cities. Now, there are 12 countries set up the law of standard working hours such as Britain, Singapore, South Korea, France and The USA (Ngo, 2013). However, Hong Kong as an international city in the world, it is too late to implement the legislation of standard working hours. People ask the reason for delaying to set up the law. The answer is simple but true. It is because government not involves actively and eagerly to implement the law. The main ideas that it is not concerned about their residents’ living standard. As a result of this, the limitation of working hours has continued to temporize and dissimulate over its concealed program. Hong Kong government worries the financial condition if there will be limitation of working hours. Social policy scholars observe the chain effect of liming standard working hours, which triggers off losing its competitive. For instance, in 2012, some members of the largest business sent a letter government’s Labour and Welfare bureau. They said that restricting working hours will affect the cardinal constructions in Hong Kong (Lin, 2013). Taking South Korea as an example, it had changed factories to other countries after standard working hours were introduced (Siu, 2012). There is no denying that government is worried about the competitive. Hong Kong, which is an international city, is one of the Four Asian Tiger in Asia. It relies on services and tourism. The law contributes to higher production and labour cost. This increase in cost will be passed on to consumers. What is most, from the perspective, the law of standard working hours is in
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