Restaurant industry leaders have defended Hong Kong’s labour importation scheme as a crucial “lifeline” for their struggling sector, arguing that it injects much-needed new blood and improves service standards rather than taking jobs from local workers. They also dismissed accusations that operators were using the scheme to hire cheap labour, insisting the total cost of…
Easing a chronic shortage of manpower by bringing in foreign labour is fair enough providing workers are not abused and Hong Kong residents do not have to worry about their jobs. But it appears this may not be the case with the expanded labour importation scheme following reports of hundreds of restaurant workers being allegedly…
Inflexible working hours, a lack of incentives and resistance to change are among the reasons Hong Kong’s premium taxi fleets are failing to attract drivers, industry representatives have said, after a trial run faced a spate of cancelled bookings. Ho Chi-keung, who leads the Motor Transport Workers General Union’s taxi division, said on Wednesday that…