Unpopular Amendment to NG
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Native Labour Ordinance
AN amendment to the Native Labour Ordinance which came into effect in Papua-New Guinea in December is causing concern among employers. Native labourers finishing their labour contracts must now be paid off in the district of their employment instead of, as formerly, at the District Office nearest their village.
In some cases this means transporting natives in a direction away frou their homes and involves extra transport and rationing costs as well as a delay in getting them back to their villages. At the same time it provides added opportunity
for time-expired labourers to squander or lose their accumulated wages before starting home.