Hong Kong launches the 2025 Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme

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The HKSAR Government has relaxed the eligibility requirements and increased the limit of the monthly allowance granted to enterprises.

Hong Kong’s Labour Department (LD) has announced the launch of the 2025 Greater Bay Area (GBA) Youth Employment Scheme, as well as enhancements to the GBA Youth Employment Scheme and the Youth Employment and Training Programme (YETP), effective immediately.

The enhanced measures include:

• Relaxing the eligibility requirements for GBA Youth Employment Scheme to allow young people aged 29 or below with sub-degree or higher qualifications to join the Scheme;
• Increasing the limit of the monthly allowance granted to enterprises to HK$12,000 for a period of up to 18 months;
• Raising the upper age limit for participants of the YETP to 29 and introducing workplace attachment opportunities in the GBA under the YETP;
• Launching the Arrangements for Mainland Youth to Work in Hong Kong under the GBA Youth Employment Scheme, allowing enterprises which have participated in the Scheme and employed Hong Kong young people to work in GBA Mainland cities to apply for the same number of Mainland young people to work in Hong Kong according to relevant requirements under the Arrangements.

This move aims to enhance employment services and support for young people, as well as encourage enterprises with businesses in both Hong Kong and Mainland cities of the GBA to hire young Hong Kong people to work in GBA Mainland cities to foster their career development and talent exchange within the GBA.