Annual report / State of Brunei.

Date:
[1955]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report / State of Brunei. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is in no way bound to enter Company employment on completion of the scholarship. At the end of the year His Highness the Sultan opened new Trade School buildings to house these apprentices. These con¬ sisted of some 4 to 5 blocks for the purpose of housing, feeding and instructing them on the lines of a modern English Public School. General: The following table shows the racial distributions of Labour employed by the main sources of occupation outside the oil company: — Government Sawmills & Race {Public Works) Rubber Woodworking Total Malays 1,835 317 121 2,273 Ibans 189 14 211 414 Chinese 86 32 146 264 Indians 9 5 — 14 Javanese 1 14 — 15 Others 16 8 6 30 2,136 390 484 3,010 The Labour Commissioner for Brunei, is also the Labour Commissioner for Sarawak and is normally stationed in the oil¬ fields at Kuala Belait. All Assistant Residents are Deputy Commissioners of Labour and are responsible within their Districts for enforcing labour legislation and for the periodical inspection of places of employment. An up-to-date Labour Ordinance embodying the principles of the International Labour Conventions exists. Enacted in 1954, it gives workers protection in such matters as hours of work, health conditions, the age of admission to employment, medical treatment, provision of written contracts of employment, notice pay and conditions of extra-territorial recruitment. A new up-to-date Workmen’s Compensation Enactment has been pre¬ pared to replace the present one. Similarly a new Lactory Ordinance has been drafted.
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