THE Democratic Party unveiled details yesterday of its plan to move a private member's bill to protect local workers against imported foreign labour - and ran into criticism from trade unions.
The Employment Protection Bill 1995 suggests allowing the Legislative Council to scrutinise every application for labour importation and to identify which industries have the greatest need for imported workers.
After a meeting with the Governor, the Democratic Party chairman, Martin Lee Chu-ming, said: 'The public grievance towards the unemployment problem can already be seen vividly. The suggestion that to have the importation policy reviewed by October is not enough.
'Being, perhaps, the last Governor before the handover, it is his responsibility to take positive action to solve the problem,' Mr Lee said.
The bill proposes to set overall limits on the number of imported workers for each industry.
However, union leaders said the bill failed to tackle the problem.
