Financial professionals with Islamic market experience and accountants can enjoy fast track immigration to Hong Kong from next month, as part of a wider government effort to address the local talent shortage. The Labour and Welfare Bureau on Tuesday added nine professions to the talent list, which now covers 60 types of jobs that the…
Hong Kong lawmakers have urged the government to hire more disabled workers and impose key performance indicators to ensure the target is met after authorities revealed such employees made up 1.5 per cent of civil servants. The Labour and Welfare Bureau revealed in a Legislative Council panel meeting on Monday that 2,513 serving civil servants…
Hong Kong’s labour shortage is expected to worsen and reach 180,000 workers by 2028, driven by a rapidly ageing elderly population projected to account for almost a third of the city’s residents. The Labour and Welfare Bureau on Thursday also predicted skilled technical staff, such as escalator mechanics and construction workers, would make up more…
A staff member at a care home run by the Hong Chi Association, Hong Kong’s largest non-governmental organisation serving people with mental disabilities, has been charged with sexually assaulting two residents. The alleged attacks on a male and a female took place in August but were only made public when the association and the Social…
A staff member at a care home run by the Hong Chi Association, Hong Kong’s largest non-governmental organisation serving people with mental disabilities, has been charged with sexually assaulting two residents. The alleged attacks on a male and a female took place in August but were only made public when the association and the Social…