Urban Group receives "Employers Gold Star Award - Gold Award"
Date: 10/1/2005
Following the success in obtaining the "Employers Gold Star Award - Platinum Award" in 2003, Urban Group received the 9th "Employers Gold Star Award - Gold Award" from the Employees Retraining Board (ERB) in 2004, recognizing their contributions to the human resources development in Hong Kong.
Organized by ERB, the "Employers Gold Star Award" aims to recognize the support of corporations to the Board through providing career opportunities to the retrainees and their commitment to the future development of Hong Kong economy.
Mr. Tam Yiu Chung, Chairman of ERB stated, "As the number of nominated corporations and retrainees has been increasing over the years, it represents that The Employers Gold Star Awards have been well recognized in the territory. We hope that the Hong Kong enterprises will continue participating in retraining programmes and contributing to the development of human resources in Hong Kong.
In 2004, Urban Group has recruited more than 400 retrainees from ERB, representing 10% of their total headcount. Among them, the retention rate reached encouragingly over 60%. Urban Group chose to work with ERB to employ the retrainees in these days of high unemployment, well demonstrates their insistence on improving their service quality and their openness in employment.
Ms. Janna Cheng, Senior Group Manager - Human Capital of Urban Group stated that "Urban Group has been working closely with ERB since 1999. Over the years, we have been co-organizing various retraining programmes in property management and security services with ERB and have been continuously recruiting retrainees through the Board. Having received the Employers Gold Star Award in 2 consecutive years, this reflects our endeavours in contributing to the Hong Kong economy as well as our commitment to the corporate social responsibility in solving the unemployment problem of the territory.
Ms. Janna Cheng continued, "In Urban, we always consider our staff as a precious asset of the Group. Thus, we provide comprehensive career development opportunities for our staff. In August 2004, we established 'The Urban Corporate University' to cultivate a long-term corporate learning culture within the Group in which we provide a wide-range of on-the job training programmes under an effective training environment to our staff, showing our corporate mission in developing our human capitals.
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