Policy Address

249. The above measures aim to combat abuse in a targeted manner, focusing on job categories with more imported workers, while ensuring businesses with genuine difficulties in local recruitment are allowed to import supplementary labour in an orderly manner to avoid business closures and collateral damage to existing employees.

250. In addition, the Labour and Welfare Bureau (LWB) has just begun a mid-term update of the Manpower Projection with focus on analysing data of industries with a larger number of imported labour. The update will be completed in 2026. The LWB will accord priority to analysing the relevant data, and provide its findings on relevant parts in advance.