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"We will strengthen our placement services, improve the vetting of applications for employing imported workers for Airport Core Programme projects, and enhance the promotion of placement services for the young and the disabled, through a provision of $61.4 million in 1995-96. This represents an increase of 15.2% over 1994-95.
"We will also launch a Pilot Employment Matching Programme for unemployed persons over 30 years of age to provide active placement services for job-seekers.
"This will be based on actual vacancies on a Special Register of the Local Employment Service of the Labour Department," he said.
In addition, $1,400 million will be spent on the retraining and apprenticeship programmes run by the Vocational Training Council for 13,092 full-time and 50,589 part-time students at its two Technical Colleges and seven Technical Institutes plus 28,936 full-time and 17,130 part-time students in the Training Centres.
Mr Leung stressed that the Government was committed to helping those workers displaced by the structural changes in the economy by offering job placement assistance and retraining.
"Since its establishment in October 1992, the Employees Retraining Board has provided over 40,000 retraining places in 119 types of course. The placement rates of the students who actively sought jobs after graduation have been high.
"At the same time, we also need to provide adequate manpower to industries with labour shortage problems.
"In 1995-96, the Employees Retraining Board will further liaise with employers and organise tailor-made courses to retrain suitable registrants in the Pilot Employment Match Programme so that they can meet the labour requirements of employers.
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"We will review the success of this matching approach regularly," he