National Jobs Council will open pathways to jobs amid COVID-19 pandemic: Josephine Teo

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SINGAPORE: The newly-formed National Jobs Council will focus on identifying and developing jobs, traineeships and skills training opportunities ...

SINGAPORE: The newly-formed National Jobs Council will focus on identifying and developing jobs, traineeships and skills training opportunities for Singaporeans amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said on Wednesday .The council, which includes veteran business leaders from industries and union leaders among its ranks, sat for its first meeting on Wednesday.

The National Jobs Council was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat in his fourth Budget on May 26.Among the matters discussed were priority areas to implement the , which aims to create close to 100,000 opportunities comprising jobs, 25,000 traineeships and 30,000 skills training placements.The ambition of the council is"on a scale well beyond any past experience," Senior Minister and council chair Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

 

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