Sources also say authorities will roll out more public works schemes to increase construction sector jobs, after a drop in private projects
Hong Kong authorities are set to tighten controls on employers seeking to import labour following complaints of local employees being replaced under the scheme, with such measures to be proposed in the city leader’s policy address, the Post has learned.
Government sources said that authorities would roll out more public works projects to increase jobs in the construction sector, an area hit hard by a significant drop in private developments.
With the unemployment rate climbing between May and July to a near three-year high of 3.7 per cent, or 145,000 people jobless, all eyes are on how Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu will address the situation in his annual policy blueprint on Wednesday.
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