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Even a six-day week just a pipe dream for our oppressed workers
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'Now that the government is introducing a five-day week, will those in business who do not follow suit be considered heartless employers?'
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James Tien Pei-chun,
Liberal Party chairman
GOOD QUESTION, MR TIEN. Workers in the private sector will undoubtedly make the contrast with their public sector counterparts who get the full weekend off.
But I have seen heartless employers at work and a Saturday morning shift was the least of the miseries they would unthinkingly inflict.
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Some years ago, before Hong Kong's new regulatory world came into full being, I was a junior at a small stock brokerage where the chief dealer had a definite eye out for his own interests.

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