The sixth anniversary view of the numerous com: plaints levelled at the China Mer-employees of that company and by chants S.°N. Ca, by the foreign other foreign officers and engineers, concerning the treatment meted out, fe is of considerable interest to learn that Mx. Li Chung-kung, the general manager, has drafted a series of regulations governing, pensions, cot pensation, ete. payable by the company to its foreign staff. In draft Ing these regulations, Mr. Li is understood to have abolished the original "unequal" regulations in this respect, Meanwhile, it is reported that most of the foreign em-lovees of the company have not yeh Feceived their full salaries, "The regulations which Mx. Li has Jdrawn up provide that all fore) employees of the company shall paid in future in Chinese silver Jeurrency. They provide that, upon their retirement from the service of the company on account of old Jage or causes other than inefficiency Jor misconduct, foreign employees Shall be entitled to a retirement susian equivalent to the following: ix months' pay for those who have been in the service for 80 years more: five months' salary for those who have served between 25 and 30 years: Who have been in the "company's service between 20 and 25" years: three months? salary for those with between 15 and "20 years service two. months? Those wh serve between ten and 19 years: and a month's salary for those "who service is between five and ten years "Salaries" mentioned shall be paid at the rate of the salary received lof their retirement, by foreign employees at the time In the event of foreign employees ving during the period of their Sava and other important points in let shir thee str. Hector, accompanied by his ssi nen Ton
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