[Archive] Layoff by companies operating Internet web-sites

Asked by : Ir Dr Hon HO Chung-tai

Replied by : SEM

Question :

Will the Government inform this Council whether:

1. it has compiled statistics on the total number of employees made redundant since 1 January this year by companies operating Internet web-sites; if it has, of a breakdown by the posts they held and the types of jobs in which they were employed;
   
   
2. it has carried out a survey on the average time taken by such employees to obtain new employment; if it has, of a breakdown of the findings by the type of jobs in which they were formerly employed; and
   
   
3. it knows the types of business operated by the companies which are now employing the information technology personnel made redundant in the past two years?
   
   

Reply:

Madam President,