FOREIGN workers were yesterday accused of taking jobs from retrained manufacturing employees.
One-third of 100 interviewed retrainees were unemployed three months after completing the programme, according to a survey by the Hong Kong Catholic Commission for Labour Affairs.
The average monthly wage of those with jobs was $6,500.
Labour group policy research officer Francis Chou Chi-hoi said the low employment rate and salary was mainly due to the increasing number of workers being brought in.
''The service sector, such as retailing and export trading, is the alternative for factory workers, but in 1992, more than half of the 12,500 imported workers entered that market, greatly diminishing opportunities to change jobs,'' Mr Chou said.
