Post: | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chinese: 勞工及福利局局長 |
Insignia: | Regional Emblem of Hong Kong.svg |
Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Hong Kong |
Department: | Labour and Welfare Bureau |
Incumbent: | Chris Sun |
Incumbentsince: | 1 July 2022 |
Style: | The Honourable |
Appointer: | Central People's Government nomination by Chief Executive |
Inaugural: | Matthew Cheung |
Formation: | 1 July 2007 |
Salary: | HK$4,021,200 per annum[1] |
Website: | LWB |
T: | 勞工及福利局局長 |
J: | Lou4 gung1 kap6 fuk1 lei6 guk6 guk6 zoeng2 |
Y: | Lòuh gūng kahp fūk leih guhk guhk jéung |
The Secretary for Labour and Welfare of the Hong Kong Government is responsible for labour and social welfare policy in Hong Kong. The position was created in 2007 to replace portions of the previous portfolio of Secretary for Economic Development and Labour and welfare portion from Secretary for Food and Health.
Labour affairs were handled by different ministers before the creation of this position:
Welfare affairs were included in the portfolio of:
Political party:
width=10px | width=80px | Portrait | width=180px | Name | width=180px colspan=2 | Term of office | width=80px | Duration | width=120px | Chief Executive | Term | Ref | |
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1 | Matthew Cheung Kin-chung 張建宗 | 1 July 2007 | 16 January 2017 | Donald Tsang | |||||||||
Leung Chun-ying | |||||||||||||
bgcolor= align=center | 2 | Stephen Sui Wai-keung 蕭偉強 | 13 February 2017 | 30 June 2017 | |||||||||
bgcolor= align=center | 3 | Law Chi-kwong 羅致光 | 1 July 2017 | 30 June 2022 | Carrie Lam | ||||||||
bgcolor= align=center | 4 | Chris Sun Yuk-han 孫玉菡 | 1 July 2022 | Incumbent | John Lee | ||||||||