Chapter 6
Employment
The government facilitates employment, safeguards workers' rights and benefits, ensures workplaces are safe and healthy, and promotes harmonious employer- employee relations.
Employment is the key to people's livelihood. Facing the challenges of continuing uncertainties in the global economy, the government has adopted various strategies, including upgrading workers' skills to make them more employable and competitive, improving the business environment, introducing measures to create jobs and enhancing labour market efficiency, all to improve the utilisation of human resources in Hong Kong and support the further development of our economy.
In 2015, the Employees Retraining Board offered 130,000 training places to upgrade the skills of in-service workers, and to help the unemployed and those seeking job changes re-enter the labour market. The government also continued to offer special help to less competitive workers. The Labour Department assists job-seekers to enter or re-enter the labour market through a number of employment initiatives, including the Employment Programme for the Middle-aged, the Work Trial Scheme, the Youth Employment and Training Programme, the Youth Employment Start, the Work Orientation and Placement Scheme for job-seekers with disabilities, and job fairs.
The government promotes harmonious employer-employee relations, protects employees' rights and benefits, and safeguards employees' safety and health at work.
Labour Market
In 2015, the labour force totalled 3.91 million people, of whom 51 per cent were men and 49 per cent were women. The total number represented a rise of 0.9 per cent over 2014.
The majority, or 88.4 per cent, were employed in the service sectors: 30.6 per cent in the import/ export, wholesale and retail trades, and accommodation (covering hotels, guesthouses, boarding houses and other establishments providing short-term accommodation) and food services; 26.5 per cent in public administration, and social and personal services; 20 per cent in
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