Tuesday, February 13, 1973
SLIGHT INCREASE IN INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT
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Industrial employment showed a slight increase in the fourth
quarter of 1972 compared with the previous quarter.
The Commissioner of Labour, Mr. Paul Tsui, disclosed this today
when he announced the results of the latest quarterly employment survey.
In that quarter, industrial employment increased marginally by
2,960 to reach a total of 619,684.
The number of industrial undertakings on Labour Department records
increased by 432 to 21,366.
"Employment expanded in electronics, (+2,395), cotton spinning and
weaving (+967) and metal products industries (+840) but dropped in woollen
knitting (-2,292), wigs (-1,272) and plastic flowers (-1,157).
Mr. Tsui observed that one of the four largest industries, in terms
of employment, remained the manufacture of textiles and made-up textile goods
(264,089).
The other three were plastic products (72,124), electrical machinery,
apparatus, appliances and supplies (62,405), and fabricated metal products
other than machinery (49,690).
A total of 19,822 vacancies was reported by industry. This represented
an increase of 981 places over the previous quarter.
Most of the vacancies occurred in garments (5,790), electronics (4,297),
plastics (1,754), metal products (1,344) and cotton spinning and weaving (1,139).
"The performance
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