Employees Retraining Board

Our Target group

All Hong Kong eligible employees (including new arrivals) aged 15 or above and with education attainment of sub-degree or below can enroll in the training programmes, which are funded by ERB and delivered through 128 training bodies.

Our objectives

To help our target group to secure employment, hold down their jobs, and in the longer term be able to gradually develop a career ladder in their jobs.

Service approach

ERB believes in a total-service approach in delivering our services for employees. Such services include counseling, training courses, placement services and follow-up services.

Training Courses

A great variety of full-time, part-time and evening courses are being offered. They broadly fall into the following categories:

• Job Specific Skills Courses


• Skills Upgrading Scheme Courses


• Generic Skills Courses including Workplace Languages, IT Applications, Personal Attributes and Job Search Skills


• Employment Set Sail Training (for new arrivals), Courses for disabled & people recovered from industrial accidents, Courses for ethnic minorities


• Youth Training Programme


• Tailor-made Programme for Employers

Course Fee

Trainees taking half-day/evening courses are required to pay a course fee . Trainees with an income less than HK$7,000 may apply for course fee exemption.

In addition, priority will be given to people with financial difficulties. Trainees whose monthly income level range from HK$7,001 to HK$15,000 will receive substantial subsidy on the courses. For trainees with a monthly income over HK$15,000, they will have to bear the full cost of these half-day/evening courses.

Allowance

Retraining allowance is only available for the unemployed taking a full-time placement-tied course with duration longer than a week. Mixed mode courses are considered as full-time courses in this respect. Trainees must attend no less than 80% of the classes to be eligible. The total allowance is calculated based on two factors: the actual number of training sessions the trainee has attended and the number of days in terms of full-day training.

Placement Services for Trainees

Graduate trainees of full-time courses are offered employment assistance in job counselling and placement services upon completion of training. The placement officers of the training bodies where you have attended the course will provide job market information and refer suitable vacancies to trainees according to their experiences, job skills, aptitudes and job expectations and so forth.