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Copies of the ECR7 Consultation Document are available at all district offices and the sub-offices of the Education Department. It is also available at the E-mail address: [email protected].

Views can be forwarded before January 15, 1997 to the Secretary, Education Commission, nineth floor, Central Government Offices (West Wing), 11 Ice House Street, Central (fax: 2537 4591 or e-mail address: [email protected].)

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Special campaign to recruit local workers for ACP jobs

The Labour Department will be playing an active part in the special Local Workers Recruitment Campaign for the new airport and related projects which will run for two weeks from next Monday (December 16) to December 31.

This recruitment campaign will be jointly organised by the Government, the Airport Authority and the Mass Transit Railway Corporation, and will be based at both the Airport Core Programme Job Centre and the Local Employment Service of the Labour Department.

The purpose of this campaign is to enable contractors concerned to make an extensive trawl of the market for suitable local workers for those job vacancies which have to be filled within the next three months in order to meet the tight works schedule of the projects.

On the basis of the results of this recruitment campaign, the Government will give expeditious approval of applications for imported workers to fill any particular shortfall of labour established through the two-week recruitment exercise during this campaign.

Assistant Commissioner for Labour (Employment Services), Mrs Jennie Chor, said today (Thursday) that both the Local Employment Service and the Special Placement Team (SPT) for the Airport Core Programme of the Department would step up their efforts in helping local construction workers to find jobs in the new airport and related projects during this campaign.

During the two-week campaign period, information on job vacancies will be displayed in the SPT and all LES offices throughout the territory.