Luo Zhiguang, director of the Labor and Welfare Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, wrote in the blog on the 21st that it was not optimistic about whether the unemployment rate in Hong Kong could have an unemployment within three years was not optimistic.
According to the Hong Kong News Agency, Luo Zhiguang wrote in a blog entitled that the unemployment rate and unemployment assistance wrote that the unemployment rate was a three -month movement average. Because the unemployment in December 2020 worsening significantly, soThe average unemployment rate announced next month, and the chance of rising is higher.
The data released by the Statistics Office of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government shows that the unemployment rate of seasonal adjustments in the latest from November last year to January this year reached 7%.
Luo Zhiguang also pointed out that with the long -term impact of the epidemic on the world, the end point has not been looking at. Whether Hong Kong can see that the unemployment rate is reduced to less than 5%within three years, it is difficult to be optimistic.The overall economic development of Hong Kong may regain rails earlier, but past experience shows that the adjustment of the labor market often takes a long time.
For a voice in the society, the government requires the government to establish a temporary unemployment aid system or fund, Luo Zhiguang believes that if the government wants to consider setting up a temporary unemployment aid project, it is necessary to consider whether this project can be "temporary".Based on past experience, any "temporary" or "one -time" project, especially those "temporary" for many years, or multiple "one -time" project, will be a group of political parties and social pressure groups to strive for "constantization of constantization."The goal.If it is impossible to be "temporary", the government has the responsibility to consider the issue of long -term financing.
He also pointed out that if the government wants to study the establishment of an unemployment insurance system, it will suspend the legislation and other preparations of the cancellation of "hedging".To establish an unemployment insurance system, the problem of employers/employees must be considered, which will inevitably have a direct relationship with the current dismissal fee/long -term service money.There are more than 70 countries in the world that have unemployment aid/insurance systems, but no region/country will have an unemployment aid system that does not require money and does not require economic review.
