HR Advisory Group

HR Advisory Group

The BBAM Macao Human Resources Advisory Group is affiliated to BBAM in the form of a sub-committee and chaired by Mrs. Jill Fergusson-Rigg.

The BBAM HR Advisory Group’s mandate is to act as a forum for HR professionals to meet and discuss common issues in a neutral environment. Numerous HR issues are addressed, including:

  • HR law (English versions)
  • Staff Retention
  • Retrenchment
  • Outsourcing
  • Outplacement
  • Benchmarking
  • Recruitment/personnel agencies and licensing requirements
  • Foreign imported labour
  • Ethics relating to HR including human trafficking.

To throw further light on these fields the BBAM HR Advisory Group has been active in inviting leaders in the HR field, from both industry and academia, to address members in several seminars or speaker lunches held over the past four years.

MANDATE of HR Advisory Group

  • Liaison with members of BBAM on all matters pertaining to the HR industry. Important HR announcements to be put up on the website.
  • Quarterly questionnaires to be sent to BBAM members relating to industry changes/updates/new policy issued from MSAR on HR matters and inviting members to address their needs to the committee.  Invitations to be extended to industry experts for updates within their specialist field of business to address the HR committee.
  • Annual HR Forum to be organized inter-chamber on HR matters pertaining to Macau.
  • Liaison/interface with Britcham GZ, HK and Shenzhen on HR specifics that may have cross border synergy (to be developed over time).  With the proposed opening of 24 hr. Macau/Zhuhai border we will see more employee movement between Macau and PRC.
  • Act as a portal and communications hub for BBAM to present position papers on HR to MSAR and be able to meet with various Govt. Departments for exchange.
  • Address social and accommodation needs for white collar labour. Is Govt and private sector catering to their needs?  Do we have a problem with exploitation of labour?
  • Human trafficking.
  • Training/mentoring of Macau’s workforce – BBAM to invite academics and training/education facilitators to address the committee and its members on:
  1. Student counselling and preparation for entry to the workforce
  2. The aging population
  3. Importation of labour and its impact on the local workforce
  4. Labour unions
  5. Salary benchmarking
  6. New labour laws
  7. Retrenchment
  8. Hiring processes – traditional methods versus newly established social networking   methods of recruitment
  • Lobby the Macau government on the importance of setting up a full time Training Centre for HR professionals, such as the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resources Management
  • Liaison with the Macau Institute of Human Resources Management and other professional bodies in the HR field.

Members of the HR Advisory Group

Chairperson:

Jill Rigg

Committee Members:

Keith Buckley
Don Hall
Pernille Baumann
Ivone de Jesus
Louisa Kuoc
Natalie Ng
Wendy Yu
Audrey Winter
Gloria Ma
Elsie Hui
William Wong
Miguel Quental
Loletta Lei
Raymond Chan
Brenda Chan
Thomas Lau
Karen Chio
Amy So
Vaibhab Tandon
Peter Koerli
Louisa Kuoc
Ellen Ho
Ken Fan
David Martin

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