Regulations by the Social Bureau Governing Employer and, Employee: Losing Businesses Unable to Stop The definitely anti-capita trend which has been observed in Ube sations of the Bureau of Social] Affairs of the Shanghai (Chinese Territory) Municipality in conneetion not only with the strike at the: Sun Sun Ca., but also in the interference offered by the bureau in the settlement of the French Tramways strike and others, is clearly shown in the Inbour regulations issued by th bureau at the beginning of the year and which are now in force, In these regulations the employee is favoured at the expense of the employer, whether right or wrong, and the Social Bureau is given the last word in any dispute no matter how] trivial, Conditions upon which an} employer may dismiss an employee fare rigidly laid down, and even suspension of business by any industrial concern on account, say, of heavy] osses, is only permitted after the bureau has given its sanction and the workers who may thus be throws out of employment compensated, apparently whether the company] forced to suspend can afford it oF not In a nutshell, a book of regulations has been issued by the governmental sanction of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai which, if en foreed in its entirety, creates under the Social Bureau a vast and powerful body of labourers, amon whom Labour unions are to have preference, and deprives the employer of every. discretionary. right in dealing with; fr dismissing Une men he pays, without referring first to the Social Bureau,
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