manpower crunch – Charm

Editorial | ‘Sackings’ cloud push for imported labour in Hong Kong

Cs news2 months ago02 mins

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…

‘Taxi drivers balk at Hong Kong premium fleets’ inflexible hours, poor perks’

Cs news3 months ago02 mins

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…