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Employment service well received by local workers
The Commissioner for Labour, Mr Stephen Ip, visited the Labour Department's Tsuen Wan Local Employment Service (LES) Office this (Tuesday) afternoon to see how staff members helped local construction workers find jobs connected with the new airport and related projects.
Mr Ip was told that the latest exercise in assisting local workers finding jobs in new airport projects received good response as hundreds of telephone calls for job information had been received through the jobs hotline 2492 2001.
In addition, many workers had approached the nine LES offices looking for jobs and 129 referrals for job interview had been arranged between 9 am yesterday (Monday) and 5pm today.
Speaking to reporters after the visit, Mr Ip asked the news media to help publicise the employment service being offered to local construction workers.
The Commissioner reiterated that as a Government policy on importation of labour, local workers should be given priority in filling job vacancies available from the new airport projects.
Mr Ip stressed that to ensure the implementation of this policy, Labour Department officers would remind contractors applying for importation of foreign workers to make sure that their employment requirements are not restrictive or unreasonable.
"We will keep tack of contractors who ignore our advice and their applications may be rejected as a result," Mr Ip said.
He said his department would look into any complaints made by local workers concerning restrictive employment conditions and take appropriate measures if the complaints were substantiated.
End/Tuesday, March 21, 1995
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