Hong Kong announced on Friday two sets of relief schemes to help ease the heavy economic burden on the city’s workforce caused by stringent social-distancing measures amid a fifth wave of coronavirus infections.
The Employment Support Scheme (ESS) will be relaunched so that the government can hand out wage subsidies to affected small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The government will also directly provide subsidies through the Temporary Unemployment Relief scheme to those who have lost…
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