Hong Kong Plans Small Pilot for Skilled Foreign Elderly-Care Workers
Hong Kong will admit only a few hundred skilled foreign domestic carers for elderly people each year under a planned pilot scheme, Labour and Welfare Secretary Chris Sun Yuk-han said. Applicants will need skills equivalent to health workers in care homes, while the government has promised a rigorous approach.
Hong Kong plans to admit only a few hundred skilled foreign domestic carers for elderly people each year under a forthcoming pilot scheme, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han has said. Sun said the limited scale was intended to address concerns about possible disruption to Hong Kong’s existing foreign-helper market. He described the approach as rigorous.
People recruited through the scheme will be required to have skills equivalent to those of health workers in Hong Kong care homes for the elderly, according to the minister. The supplied material does not specify when the pilot will begin, how many workers will be admitted precisely or which countries may provide applicants. It also does not set out the application process, pay arrangements or the scheme’s duration.
The plan is therefore described only in broad terms: a small annual intake of skilled foreign carers, with eligibility linked to care-home health-worker standards. Sun’s comments were reported by the South China Morning Post.
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