TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1988
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APART FROM ACTUAL PLACEMENT WORK, DR FANG NOTED, ALSO ATTACHED MUCH IMPORTANCE TO A SYSTEMATIC PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES WHICH WERE AIMED AT URGING EMPLOYERS TO GIVE A FAIR CHANCE AND TO REMOVE POSSIBLE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE WORKING ABILITY OF DISABLED PERSONS.
THE
OF
DIVISION PUBLICITY
THE DISABLED THEY MIGHT HAVE
THREE
MENTIONING:
PROMOTIONAL
ACTIVITIES
WERE
PARTICULARLY
WORTH
TO VARIOUS
* FIRST, STAFF OF THE DIVISION PAID REGULAR VISITS
ESTABLISHMENTS TO EXPLAIN TO EMPLOYERS THAT DISABLED PERSONS ABLE-BODIED IN PERFORMING A WERE EQUALLY COMPETENT AS THE WIDE RANGE OF JOBS.
* SECONDLY, PRESENTATIONS OF SOUVENIRS WERE
GIVE RECOGNITION TO EMPLOYERS WHO HAD TAKEN NUMBER OF DISABLED PERSONS OR HAD ACCOMMODATE THEIR EMPLOYMENT.
HELD
ON MADE SPECIAL
ANNUALLY TO THE LARGEST ΤΟ EFFORTS
ORGANISED ΤΟ PROMOTE THE
* THIRDLY, ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS WERE
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF THE DISABLED.
LABOUR,
SPECIAL
ASPECTS: THE
EARLIER, IN HIS WELCOMING SPEECH, THE COMMISSIONER FOR MR TONY HAMMOND, SAID THE EXHIBITION INCORPORATED THREE SELECTIVE
GOVERNMENT, PLACEMENT SERVICE PROVIDED BY THE TECHNICAL AIDS WHICH ENHANCED THE EMPLOYABILITY OF THE THE BENEFITS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR THE DISABLED.
ITS OBJECTIVE WAS TO PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS EMPLOYERS ABILITIES OF DISABLED PERSONS AND TO URGE
WITH INTO
THE WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITIES.
BY
PROVIDING
THEM
"EMPLOYERS WHO HAVE HAD THE EXPERIENCE
DISABLED, AND
OF THE WORKING TO ABSORB THEM MORE
EMPLOYMENT
OF EMPLOYING DISABLED
PERSONS WILL AGREE WITH ME, I AM SURE, THAT THE DISABLED ARE DILIGENT, LOYAL AND STABLE WORKERS, MR HAMMOND SAID,
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"AT A TIME WHEN HONG KONG IS FACING A LABOUR CALL UPON EMPLOYERS NOT TO OVERLOOK THIS VALUABLE BUT SOURCE OF LABOUR AND URGE THEM TO RESPOND TO OUR RESOURCES, EMPLOY THE DISABLED'.
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SHORTAGE, MAY
LARGE UNTAPPED MESSAGE 'TAP HUMAN
I
PLAZA IN PM DAILY
THE EXHIBITION, WHICH IS BEING HELD AT THE NEW WORLD TSIM SHA TSUI, IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BETWEEN 10 AM AND 6.30 UNTIL DECEMBER 12.
VISITORS CAN SEE SOME OF THE SPECIAL TECHNICAL AIDS ON DISPLAY
PERSONS VOCATIONAL TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO DISABLED AND THE VARIETY OF JOBS TAKEN UP BY THEM IN VARIOUS SECTORS,
THE
DISABLED
TRAINEES,
GAME
BY
THERE ARE ALSO LIVE WORK DEMONSTRATIONS BY SIMULATED JOB-MATCHING BY COMPUTER AND A QUESTION-AND-ANSWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES.
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