Future candidates for the role of Chief Executive will be more thoroughly vetted while national secrets have become more defined.
Macao Legislative Assembly
A law proposing increases across all minimum wage categories, has been finalised for Legislative Assembly review, with the new rates set to take effect from 1 January 2024.
Committee chair Ella Lei Cheng I says bill follows mainland China’s state security law concerning secrets on economic and social development.
Draft bill aims to protect workers’ rights and benefits but bars trade unions from engaging in activities that endanger public order or public health.
Culture Secretary warns of need to raise standards and international competitiveness; student numbers increase by almost half in four years.
Government will continue to give MOP 10,000 to permanent residents and MOP 6,000 to temporary residents in 2023; city’s ‘birth subsidy’ will give each parent MOP 5,418 for every baby born next year.
Operators face 1% tax hike on GGR; greatest concern is fate of satellite casinos and potential effect of job losses on Macao’s economy.
Animal clinics and related businesses also to be more strictly regulated in future under new bill set to go through Legislative Assembly.
