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The Secretary for Labour and Welfare (Chinese: 勞工及福利局局長) of the Hong Kong Government is responsible for labour and social welfare policy in Hong Kong.The position was created in 2007 to replace portions of the previous portfolio of Secretary for Economic Development and Labour and welfare portion from Secretary for Food and Health.
The Labour and Welfare Bureau (Chinese: 勞工及福利局) is a policy bureau of the Government of Hong Kong responsible for employment, labor-development, manpower, human resources management, poverty-reduction, and social welfare in Hong Kong.
In June 2023, the government announced that 20,000 workers would be hired from outside of Hong Kong; both pro-Beijing and pro-democracy groups criticized the plan, saying the government was "circumventing" the Labour Advisory Board, with one group saying that the "government intentionally bypassed the existing mechanism for importing labour."
The lawmakers asked Treasury Department officials to brief the committee on “the current status of American banking relationships with Hong Kong banks, how our policies have shifted to account ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong on Friday published its draft of a new national security law, a document some lawyers said broadened what could be considered sedition and state secrets, with ...
According to China Labor Bulletin, there were 138 strikes by food delivery drivers between 2015 and 2022. [ 10 ] : 163 Ten percent of these strikes involved over 100 participants. [ 10 ] : 163 Nearly all of the food delivery strikes documented by China Labor Bulletin involved Meituan or Ele.me , and the worker's demands primarily related to pay ...
In 2020, the government outlawed the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” for being secessionist and subversive. The “Glory to Hong Kong” lyrics contain parts of ...
Hong Kong has an area of 1,106 square kilometres and a population of about 7,413,070 {2021 Hong Kong Census}. [1] Despite its small size, Hong Kong is currently ranked the 15th largest exporting country in the world as of 2008. [2] The total value of visible trade amounted to $3,548.2 billion in 2003, and exports totalled $362.1Bn in 2008.