Enhancing the Youth Employment and Training Programme (YETP)

Enhancing the Youth Employment and Training Programme (YETP)

The Labour Department has expanded the scope of the YETP with effect from 1.9.2018 to cover part-time on-the-job training and raise the ceiling of the monthly on-the-job training allowance. The aim is to encourage employers to hire young people and provide them with quality on-the-job training with a view to promoting youth employment.

Under the enhanced programme, the scope of paid on-the-job training, which lasts for 6 to 12 months, has been expanded from full-time employment only (i.e. no less than 30 working hours per week) to cover part-time jobs as well (i.e. 18 to under 30 working hours per week), with effect from 1.9.2018, in order to meet the needs of some young people who are more interested in taking up part-time jobs.

In addition, to encourage employers to provide different kinds of on-the-job training positions to offer young job seekers more choices, the maximum monthly on-the-job training allowance payable to employers, who engage young people in paid full-time or part-time on-the-job training through YETP, has been increased from $3,000 to $4,000 per trainee employed. The revised on-the-job training allowance is 50% of the trainee's monthly salary, subject to a ceiling of $4,000 per month, payable for a period of 6 to 12 months.