Employment and Training

As our economy continues to change and adjust to new demands, there is a need to ensure our workforce is correspondingly re-skilled and up-skilled to cope with these changes and to support the growing number of new sectors.

Over the years, the Labour Movement has been working closely with the tripartite partners to put in place various programmes to build up a Continuing Education and Training system which includes:

·         Skills Redevelopment Programme in 1996 as the initial phase to encourage companies to send employees for retraining and upgrading opportunities.

·         Job Re-creation Programme in 2005 as the second phase to complement worker re-skilling initiatives under SRP. JRP aimed to remake jobs that suffered from low productivity and professional image, such as cleaning, security and landscape, and made them more attractive to locals.

·         e2i (Employment and Employability Institute) in 2008 as the third phase to champion both skills redevelopment and job re-creation by assisting workers to upgrade or find new/better jobs. The efforts to re-skill workers have also benefited from the steadfast support of the tripartite partners, namely the Government, Workforce Development Agency and employers.