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Transport Support Scheme
A transport support scheme provides time-limited transport subsidy to needy job seekers and low-income employees living in the four designated remote districts of Tuen Mun, Yuen Long, North and Islands to encourage them to venture beyond their districts to work or seek jobs.
Two types of allowances are payable under the scheme: a Job Search Allowance of up to $600 payable on a reimbursement basis to cover transport expenses incurred for attending job interviews, and an 'On-the-job Transport Allowance' of $600 per month for up to 12 months.
Since its inception in June 2007 up to end of 2010, the scheme received 43 463 applications for which about $330 million was earmarked for successful applicants and some $210 million was paid out.
The Government will launch in 2011 a work incentive transport subsidy scheme to help all eligible employed persons in Hong Kong meet part of their home-to-work travelling expenses. The monthly allowance will be $600, or $300 at half-rate per person. The new initiative will replace the existing Transport Support Scheme.
Helping People With Disabilities Find Jobs
The Labour Department's Selective Placement Division helps people with disabilities to integrate into the community through open employment. It provides free employment counselling and placement services to people with hearing or visual impairment, physical handicap, chronic illness, intellectual disability, ex-mental illness, specific learning difficulties and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The division launched a series of employment programmes and promotional events in 2010 to help these people secure jobs. It registered 3 051 such job seekers and found work for 2 405 of them during the year.
The Labour Department continues to run a 'Work Orientation and Placement Scheme' to improve the employment opportunities of people with disabilities by giving them pre-employment training and work trial placement. Employers participating in the scheme receive a financial incentive from the Labour Department. The maximum amount of financial incentive for employers was raised to $4,000 per month in 2009. At the same time, the payment period was extended from a maximum of three months to six months. In 2010, a total of 626 people with disabilities had found work under the scheme.
Preparing People for Work
Youth Pre-employment Training Programme and Youth Work Experience and Training Scheme
A Youth Pre-employment Training Programme and Youth Work Experience and Training Scheme (YPTP&YWETS) provides a full range of pre-employment and on-the- job training lasting between six and 12 months for young school leavers aged between 15 and 24 with educational attainment at sub-degree level or below, to enhance their employability. Response to the programme is encouraging. In the
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