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On-the-Job Training Scheme
Following is a question by the Hon James To and a reply by the acting Secretary for Education and Manpower, Miss Jacqueline Willis, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Regarding the On-the-Job Training Scheme, will the Government inform this Council of the following:
Reply:
(a)
(b)
(c)
Mr President.
whether it will promote the Scheme to a larger number of establishments in the private sector so as to reduce the number of the unemployed in the territory;
the current number of corporate participants in the Scheme; the respective percentages of participants from the service sector and the manufacturing sector out of the total number of participants, as well as the respective numbers of trainees involved; and
the number of trainees who will stay on their jobs after completing the three-month on-the-job training; and whether the three-month training period is sufficient; if not, whether the training period will be extended?
(a) The Employees Retraining Board (ERB) and the Labour Department have been actively promoting the On-the-Job Training (OJT) Scheme through their liaison networks with major employers' associations and individual employers. Over 20,000 OJT pamphlets have been sent by the ERB to employers informing them of the Scheme. The ERB training bodies also contact employers in their locality to promote the OJT Scheme and to assist in the placements of retrainees. The ERB reviews such promotion efforts regularly and will step up publicity where necessary. In the coming months, the government will conduct a more detailed survey on job vacancies. The information will help the ERB to target the retraining at the occupational groups with high vacancy rates and those jobs that would benefit more through OJT rather than the more traditional classroom studies.