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LCQ17: Apprenticeship Scheme
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     Following is a question by the Hon Kwok Wai-keung and a written reply by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, in the Legislative Council today (July 9):

Question:

     Regarding the apprenticeship schemes implemented under the Apprenticeship Ordinance (Cap. 47) (the Ordinance), will the Government inform this Council whether it knows, in each of the past five financial years:

(1) the respective numbers of apprentices registered under the 45 designated trades in accordance with the Ordinance, and set out by year and trade in a table of the same format as Table 1 (i) the periods of apprenticeship for the trades, (ii) the median wages of apprentices during the first year of their apprenticeships, (iii) the median wages of apprentices during the last year of their apprenticeships, and (iv) the current median market wages in the relevant trades; and

 (2) the respective numbers of apprentices registered under non-designated trades in accordance with the Ordinance, and set out by year and trade in a table of the same format as Table 2 (i) brief job descriptions of the trades, (ii) the periods of apprenticeship for the trades, (iii) the median wages of apprentices during the first year of their apprenticeships; (iv) the median wages of apprentices during the last year of their apprenticeships, and (v) the current median market wages in the relevant trades?

Reply:

President,

     My reply to the Hon Kwok Wai-keung's question is set out as below:

     The number of apprentices, registered in accordance with the Apprenticeship Ordinance (Cap. 47) (the Ordinance) between 2010 and 2014 (as of March 31 each year), in the designated trades specified under the Ordinance and the period of apprenticeship for these trades are set out at Annex 1; while the number of registered apprentices in non-designated trades and the period of apprenticeship for these trades are set out at Annex 2. The brief job descriptions of the non-designated trades in which there were registered apprentices as at 31 March 2014 are set out at Annex 3.

     The apprenticeship contracts have recorded the initial salaries of apprentices. However, given the large number of individual records which are stored in paper form only, the Office of the Director of Apprenticeship under the Vocational Training Council cannot provide within a short period of time the information on the median salaries of apprentices at the beginning of the apprenticeship. While subsequent changes to salaries have been recorded during visits to the apprentices, given the large number of records involved, the Office of the Director of Apprenticeship cannot provide within a short period of time the information on the median salaries of the apprentices at the last year of apprenticeship. The Office of the Director of Apprenticeship does not have information on the market median salaries of the relevant industries.

Ends/Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Issued at HKT 19:00

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