Hongkong Post scraps permanent contracts for new staff amid financial strain

Hong Kong’s self-financing postal administration will stop offering permanent civil service contracts to new employees as part of cost-saving measures amid a worsening financial outlook.
The abrupt move by Hongkong Post sparked concerns among civil servants, who worried that the same approach would be applied to other departments in the future.
Postmaster General Leonia Tai Shuk-yiu said on Tuesday that new Hongkong Post employees who pass probation in or after September would be offered...