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Review the operation of the General Scheme to remove/minimise its perceived/real effects on the employment opportunities of local workers. The review will include all the operational aspects of the Scheme, including the quota ceiling, the types of workers permitted, the quota allocation formula as well as the vetting and monitoring procedures. The Government will also positively consider setting up a tripartite committee involving employers and employees on the importation of labour.
Obtain more detailed information of the profile of the unemployed and the profile of job vacancies. From October, the Government will double the current sample size of 13,500 households per quarter of its General Household Survey, and also include more items in the survey of vacancies.
Step up the employment service by expanding the Pilot Job Matching The Government Programme to all Local Employment Services offices. intends to:
expand the Programme from five Local Employment Services (LES) offices to all the nine LES offices;
add nine job matching teams comprising two persons each plus a team of five staff responsible for promoting the Programme.
With the additional resources, the LES will be able to:
increase the placement figures to about 100 placements per month;
organise special recruitment forum for employers from particular sectors once every month on average; and
make the service more outreaching and proactive.
Review the Employees Retraining Scheme so as to make it more placement focused, and ensure that the Employees Retraining Board (ERB) will have no resource constraints. The Employees Retraining Board will:
step up their placement service for retrainees so as to help ensure that retrainees can re-enter the workforce after retraining; and
introduce an Outplacement service for retrenched workers by offering them on-site retraining assistance to facilitate them to take up alternati employment early,
plan to place up to 10,000 unemployed persons in jobs in the next 12 months.