2023-06-14 08:13:53
On the afternoon of June 13, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China) announced that it would receive about 27,000 foreign workers to solve the problem. lack of laborrelated to industries such as construction, transportation, aviation …
Hong Kong Finance Department Deputy Director Huang Wei Luan said that the Hong Kong government consulted the special plan of Nursing home to develop a special plan for the transport and construction sectors, and to optimize the labor replenishment program to alleviate the labor shortage problem of the sectors.
Mr. Hoang Vi Luan announced plans to receive foreign workers of the two industries, in which the construction industry is expected to receive about 12,000 workers, the transportation industry will receive about 8,000 workers, including about 6,300 airport employees. flights and 2,000 tour bus and minibus drivers.
[Triển vọng tăng trưởng kinh tế của Hong Kong trong năm 2023]
As airport staff can travel two places across borders to work during the day, the Hong Kong Government will relax the requirement that employers have to arrange accommodation in Hong Kong for workers. However, this provision does not apply to all positions.
According to Director of the Hong Kong Transport and Logistics Department Lam The Hung, Hong Kong’s air traffic volume increased rapidly after comprehensive customs clearance, in April this year reached 50% before the outbreak.
However, according to a survey by the airport authority, it is expected that the workforce of the Hong Kong aviation industry will be short of about 16,000 people by the end of 2024. Of which 75%, or about 12,000 frontline positions in the country. airport, are vacant, especially 10 types of jobs such as ground staff, apron staff, cabin staff, aircraft maintenance workers, technical staff.
The Hong Kong government will start accepting applications to import workers for transport and construction jobs from July, and it is expected that it will take about two months to process these applications.
In addition, Director of the Hong Kong Department of Labor and Welfare Ton Ngoc Ham emphasized that the Hong Kong government will optimize the program of additional workers, temporarily suspending the implementation of the regulation not to import foreign workers for 26 positions. unskilled/low-skilled employment for a period of 2 years.
This means 26 job positions including sales representative, salesperson, waiter, receptionist, cashier, primary chef, office worker, telephone operator, laundry worker … will be able to apply for permission to accept foreign workers through the additional labor optimization program.
Mr. Hoang Vi Luan said that along with Hong Kong’s aging population, many labor-intensive industries, especially construction and transportation, have a labor shortage problem. Faced with a serious and urgent shortage of labor, the Government Hong Kong will handle it decisively, so as not to let the labor shortage become a bottleneck hindering Hong Kong’s recovery.
Receiving foreign workers is just one of the measures to deal with labor shortages. The Hong Kong government will simultaneously apply many other measures such as accepting employers foreign workers pay training costs.
Mr. Hoang Vi Luan emphasized that although the plan to receive workers of the two industries mentioned above is not sustainable, it does not set a deadline. This quota of more than 20,000 people is expected to be used up next year. As was the case in the past, a lot of outside workers could come from Mainland China.
Thach Binh (VNA/Vietnam+)
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