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Figures on unemployment due to dismissal or redundancy
Following is a question by the Hon Cheng Yiu-tong and a written reply by the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mr Joseph W P Wong, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
The information provided by the Government indicates that since 1995, the main reasons for unemployment among those who had worked before were due to dismissal or redundancy. Amongst those people who became unemployed in the third quarter of last year, 59.4% were dismissed or made redundant, which was much higher than the figure of 30.7% in the same period in 1991. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council of the following:
(a)
whether it has collected any information relating to items (i) to (iv) below; if so, please provide the following information in the past three years:
(i)
(ii)
the breakdown of the number of unemployed persons who were dismissed or made redundant by "sex and previous employment by trade classification", "age and previous employment by trade classification", "sex and previous occupation" and "age and previous occupation";
the numbers of persons, amongst the unemployed who were dismissed or made redundant, who had taken part in courses under the
the Employees Retraining Scheme or received Comprehensive Social Security Assistance payments respectively;
(iii) the numbers of persons, amongst the unemployed who were dismissed or made redundant, who were engaged in the same trade for less than one year, one to less than four years, four to less than six years, and six years and above respectively;
the policies put in place by the Government to assist unemployed persons who were dismissed or made redundant to obtain re- employment, and the number of such persons who have been re- employed;
if not, what the reasons are; and whether the Government will consider collecting such information and publishing it on a regular basis; and
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