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Hong Kong must improve public childcare service so more mothers can go to work and help ease the city’s impending manpower shortage, the labour minister said on Sunday (March 18).
Secretary for Labour and Welfare Dr Law Chi-kwong said making the services more accessible was a matter of gender equality, and an area in which Hong Kong could learn from Singapore.
Dr Law said getting more people into work would ease the effects of a workforce shrinkage which is expected to kick in in the next few years.