Secretary for Labour & Welfare Dr Law Chi-kwong said today the response to the 2022 Employment Support Scheme is encouraging with close to 50,000 applications from employers within one day of the application.

His remarks came a day after the scheme was launched that will give wage subsidies to eligible employers for three months from May.

“When we started to announce the intention of setting up the Employment Support Scheme, we have already seen some actions in the market, where people started to rethink about the continuity of their business and the planning of resuming their business after the relaxation of the social distancing measures.

“So, I would say the impact has already been seen in the past couple of weeks. We hope that, with this Employment Support Scheme, people will be able to scale up their operations and create more employment for our labour force.”