{"id":194035,"date":"2025-06-18T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194035\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:26:16","slug":"hong-kong-new-measures-implemented-to-safeguard-employment-priority-for-local-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194035\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong | New measures implemented to safeguard employment priority for local workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Labor Department implemented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.info.gov.hk\/gia\/general\/202506\/17\/P2025061700328.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">new measures<\/a> under the Enhanced Supplementary Labor Scheme (ESLS) to safeguard employment priority for local workers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After an employer has submitted an ESLS application to hire a foreign worker, subsequent applications submitted by the same employer will not be processed.<\/li>\n<li>The Labor Department will inspect establishments that employ foreign workers to ensure they meet the 2:1 ratio requirement of local workers to foreign workers.<\/li>\n<li>The Labor Department launched an online complaint form on the ESLS website for local workers to lodge complaints against employers suspected of displacing local workers with foreign workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This alert has been provided by the BAL Global Practice Group.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 Berry Appleman &amp; Leiden LLP. All rights reserved. Reprinting or digital redistribution to the public is permitted only with the express written permission of Berry Appleman &amp; Leiden LLP. For inquiries, please contact copyright@bal.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hong Kong Labor Department implemented new measures under the Enhanced Supplementary Labor Scheme (ESLS) to safeguard employment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-194035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114703655506568879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}