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Article

1 Apr 2002

Author:
Mark Landler, New York Times

Workplace Cacophony Leads to Compensation [Hong Kong]

Hong Kong's government plans to tackle at least one of these occupational hazards - making employees of mah-jongg parlors eligible for compensation for loss of hearing suffered on the job...In addition to mah-jongg workers, the Hong Kong authorities added three other professions to their list of dangerously noisy jobs: disc jockeys, waiters and bartenders, and workers in slaughterhouses who electrocute pigs.