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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1994

TYPE

MORE

(B) IN ALLOCATING QUOTAS TO EMPLOYERS WHO APPLY FOR

PROVIDES THAN ONE

GOVERNMENT TYPE OF WORKERS,

BACH FLEXIBILITY TO EMPLOYERS TO DECIDE THE NUMBER OF

AS A RESULT, THE OF WORKERS TO BE IMPORTED.

TYPE OF GOVERNMENT DOES NOT KNOW THE NUMBER OF EACH

ΤΟ

THE BE IMPORTED UNTIL

VISA APPLICATION WORKERS

OF STAGE WHEN EMPLOYERS SUPPLY DETAILED

TO PREVENT ABUSE OF WORKERS THEY INTEND TO BRING IN.

OF THE SYSTEM, THERE IS A REQUIREMENT THAT THE NUMBER

AN EMPLOYER WORKERS OF BACH TYPE TO BE IMPORTED BY MUST NOT EXCEED THE NUMBER THAT HE REQUESTED FIRST PLACE.

INFORMATION

IN THE

(C) IN

LABOUR,

SETTING THE CEILING OF QUOTA FOR IMPORTED

THE GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT THE LEVÉLS UNDER PREVIOUS LABOUR IMPORTATION SCHEMES,

ECONOMY, SITUATION, THE STATE OF THE EMPLOYMENT COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE.

ΤΟ

SAFEGUARD

SET

THE

AND

LOCAL

OF THE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES WORKERS,

HAVE ΤΟ EMPLOYERS

THEY PROVE THAT

HAVE THEY ARE OFFERED JOBS TO LOCAL WORKERS FIRST BEFORE ALLOWED TO IMPORT WORKERS.

HAS THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT TEAMS WHICH CARRY OUT AT PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT AND ACCOMMODATION TO CHECK THE EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS OF IMPORTED LABOUR.

ΤΟ HAVE CONTRAVENED LABOUR

FOUND

PROSECUTED.

INSPECTIONS

EMPLOYERS LAWS WILL

BE

0

TRAINING OF CHINESE NATIONALS IN IIK

FOLLOWING IS A QUESTION BY THE HON TAM YIU-CHUNG AND A REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR MICHAEL IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY);

WRITTEN LEUNG,

QUESTION: WILL THE GOVERNMENT INFORM THIS COUNCIL

:

(A)

OF

THE NUMBER

THE MAINLAND WHOSE OF PERSONS FROM APPLICATIONS TO COME TO WORK IN HONG KONG FOR TRAINING

THREE HAD BEEN APPROVED IN THE PAST PURPOSES

YEARS;

AND

(B)

WHETHER ANY MEASURES WILL BE TAKEN TO IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN LABOUR BY LOCAL UNDER SUCH PRETEXT?

PREVENT

MASS

ORGANISATIONS

REPLY:

MR PRESIDENT,

(A) THE NUMBERS

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