NEW legislators are to undergo three days of intensive schooling on their duties and government working procedures next week.
Subjects range from the structure of the Government to the rules of Legco debate, including basic etiquette of dress and manners and a rehearsal of the swearing-in.
But, while the new legislators are learning, the old hands are already drafting legislative proposals. New hotels and catering representative Chan Wing-chan of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong was dismayed to find manufacturing representative Lee Cheuk-yan had beaten him to a proposal to scrap the labour importation scheme.
The social welfare representative, Law Chi-kwong, has already selected four of the six seminars and plans to table a motion debate on elderly welfare in November.
The legal constituency representative Margaret Ng Ngoi-yee ruled out presenting a private member's bill, which she called a 'pressure tactic' and a waste of resources.
