After Hong Kong recovered early this year, many industries have lack of manpower.The Hong Kong Government announced on Tuesday (June 13) that the first large -scale input of the construction industry and transportation industry will be entered for the first time in September to alleviate the problem of insufficient human resources.Among them, the upper limit of the construction industry's input of foreign workers is 12,000, which is given priority to public projects.Employers should provide accommodation for foreign workers at the designated location, including construction sites or central dormitories.The upper limit of the transportation industry is 8,000, including the upper limit of the aviation industry quota, and the upper limit of the quota of public minimum and passenger car drivers.Officials are expected that most airport foreign workers will live in mainland China. They will be coordinated by the Hong Kong Airport Administration to make a daily cross -border traffic shuttle, and the transportation costs will be borne by foreign workers themselves.In addition, the Hong Kong Government also plans to relax 26 non -technical types under the "Supplement Labor Program", including waiters, painters, hairstyles, and salespersons. It is allowed to hire foreign workers for two years.Huang Weilun, deputy director of the Hong Kong Financial Secretary, pointed out at a press conference on Tuesday that in recent years, Hong Kong's population is aging, and many densely populated workers, especially the construction and transportation industry, have a shortage. Therefore, the official decided to enter relevant industry workers to meet the needs of economic development.He said: "When the industry has done its best, after training and various encouragement employment measures, there is still a lack of manpower. Moderate and standardized to enter workers is a policy we have to consider. We must ensure that the economy has sufficient motivation to develop forward."But Huang Weilun emphasized that" the employment of local labor "is still a major principle of related plans.The salary of the input of workers cannot be lower than the median salary of the relevant position. Employers who enter the foreign workers must also deposit 400 Hong Kong dollars (about S $ 69) for each foreign worker., Used to strengthen training local workers.The Hong Kong business community is generally welcomed by the newly entered labor arrangements of the Hong Kong Government, and believes that it will help relieve the problem of the shortage of construction, transportation and aircraft players.The labor community is concerned that the official expansion of the input of foreign workers will be comprehensively expanded. It will reduce the bargaining ability of grass -roots workers, make it difficult for salary to be reasonably improved, and it is more difficult to attract new people to enter the industry. In the end, it is difficult to get rid of the vicious circle of relying on foreign workers.From May 19th to June 5th, the Hong Kong Bauhinia Research Institute visited 923 adult Hong Kong people with audio.The survey results found that 55.1%of the respondents agreed to enter foreign workers when ensuring that local workers were prioritized, and 38.8%expressed disagreement.In response to the impact of input foreign workers on Hong Kong, more people interviewed Hong Kong people expressed their concerns that they were most worried about "affecting employment opportunities for local workers", and other sequences were "affecting the salary level of local workers" and "affecting local security."According to the current policy, if the employers of Hong Kong operating business do not really fail to hire a suitable man in Hong Kong, they can apply for input to enter the technical staff level or below.Ye Deping, a senior lecturer of the Hong Kong University of Education, said in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that supporting the number of foreign workers in the Hong Kong government's expansion of foreign workers, because some industries in Hong Kong are currently facing the problem of manpower shortage, which hinders the development of the industry.It will cause insufficient admission to tour groups, and the decrease in the number of tour groups will affect other industries. "However, Ye Deping hoped that the Hong Kong government would set up a review period to review the effectiveness of new measures after a period of time.In addition, officials need to strengthen their execution forces, and regularly sampling companies entering foreign workers to ensure that the policy has not been abused.
