The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced that it will enter about 27,000 foreign workers to solve the problem of Hong Kong workers' shortages, involving buildings, transportation, aviation and other industries.
Comprehensive Sing Tao, Zhongtong News Agency and Bloomberg reported that the Hong Kong Government announced the above arrangements on Tuesday (June 13) in the afternoon.Huang Weilun, deputy director of the Hong Kong Financial Secretary, said that the Hong Kong Government's reference house entered the special plan of the nursing home to set up a special plan for the transportation industry and the construction industry. At the same time, it optimized the problem of supplementary labor plans to soothe the shortage of people in the industry.
Huang Weilun announced the input foreign labor plan of the two industries. Among them, the construction industry intends to introduce about 1200 workers.Travel bus and small bus driver.Among them, because the airport employees can go to and from cross -border work on the two places today, the Hong Kong Government will relax the arrangements for employers to provide foreign workers in Hong Kong's residence, but this arrangement is not applicable to all types of workers.
Lin Shixiong, director of the Hong Kong Transportation and Logistics Bureau, said that Hong Kong's air transport volume rebounded quickly after the full customs clearance, and it reached 50 % before the epidemic in April this year.10 types of workers, such as aircraft maintenance and technicians.
The Hong Kong Government will accept the input labor application of construction and transportation from July. It is expected that it will take about two months to handle these applications.
In addition, Sun Yuzheng, director of the Hong Kong Labor and Welfare Bureau, pointed out that the Hong Kong government will optimize the supplementary labor plan and suspend the implementation of 26 non -technical/low -tech positions that cannot be entered for foreign workers for two years.This means that 26 positions such as business representatives, salespersons, waiters, waiters, receptionists, cashier, junior chefs, clerk, telephone wiring students, and laundry workers will be able to apply for foreign workers with supplementary labor optimization plans.
Huang Weilun said that with the aging population of Hong Kong, many human -intensive workers, especially the construction and transportation industry, have a shortage of manpower.In the face of the reality of severe and urgent labor shortage, the Hong Kong government will decisively deal with, not allowing manpower shortages to become a bottleneck that hinders Hong Kong's recovery, obstructing economic development, and affecting people's livelihood.
Huang Weilun continued that entering the labor is only one of the ways to deal with the shortage. The Hong Kong Government will respond to the shortage of manpower, including the input of employers who enter the foreign workers to pay the employee training fee for employees for re -training training.The bureau does local training.
He also emphasized that the labor input plan of the two industries above is not permanent, but there is no time limit.He predicts that more than 20,000 quotas may be used up next year.According to past practice, many foreign workers may come from mainland China.
