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In response to media enquiries on the incident regarding trainees from Xiamen, a spokesman for the Labour Department gave the following statement:
Under existing labour legislation, the Labour Department will follow up on labour disputes between employers and employees.
According to the training contracts of the batch of trainees from Xiamen with a Mainland enterprise (Taikoo (Xiamen) Aircraft Engineering Company Limited), they did not have employer and employee relationship with the Hong Kong training organisation (Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Limited).
However, the Labour Department is in touch with relevant parties, including the Immigration Department, the union and the Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Limited, to seek more understanding of the incident.
Ends/Monday, January 11, 2010
Issued at HKT 17:49
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