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Task Force on Employment

Established in June 1998 to seek to map out an overall strategy for tackling unemployment and to monitor its implementation, the Task Force on Employment (the Task Force), led by the Financial Secretary, had devised a wide range of measures to create jobs and promote employment.

The Government revamped the Task Force and widened its representation to include members of the Legislative Council (LegCo) and political parties in October 2002. The revamp enhanced the role of the Task Force as a high-level forum to tap the views of the business community, labour sector, academia and the political parties on ways to improve the employment situation in Hong Kong.

The Terms of Reference of the Task Force were:

  1. to review Hong Kong's latest economic and employment situation;
  2. to assess future economic and employment trends;
  3. to take stock of the result and effectiveness of various employment and training/retraining measures implemented so far to help the unemployed; and
  4. to consider and devise measures to improve the employment opportunities of the locally unemployed.

Membership of the Task Force was as follows:

Chairman: Financial Secretary, The Hon TANG Ying-yen, Henry, GBS, JP

Members:

In Attendance

Secretary