DOLE urged to address job-skills mismatch
Published Jun 19, 2018 11:39 am
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Updated Jun 19, 2018 11:39 am
By Vanne Ellaine Terrazola
Senator Joel Villanueva on Tuesday prodded the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and other concerned agencies to report on the status of its programs aimed at addressing job-skills mismatch.
Sen. Joel Villanueva
(Senate of the Philippines Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN) Villanueva, chairperson of the Senate committee on labor, employment, and human resources development, made the appeal as he called anew on the government to make sure that the workers who will be employed under the "Build, Build, Build" infrastructure program are skills-ready. “It has been our consistent call on the concerned government agencies — Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Education (DepEd), and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) — to up-skill our workers and address the problem of job-skills mismatch which becomes imperative with the implementation of the administration’s Build-Build-Build program,” Villanueva said in a statement. “I think the DOLE should already be reporting on the progress of the programs addressing the job-skills mismatch and TESDA on the tech-voc trainings. The agencies should already be working on the identified hard-to-fill jobs, among others,” he noted. According to the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), the administration’s ambitious infrastructure campaign will generate an average of 1.1 million jobs annually, mostly from the construction sector. NEDA also expects over 820,000 jobs to be created for this year with a number of projects rolled out nationwide. Villanueva said “there should be a strong academe-industry linkage" to ensure that the workers would be skills-ready for the infrastracture projects. The senator likewise urged members of the House of Representatives to pass a similar measure that would "democratize" access to skills training to help job-seekers be successful in landing jobs that match their skills. “In the Senate, we have already passed on third and final reading Senate Bill No. 1431 or the proposed Tulong Trabaho Act which aims to make tech-voc accessible to all and ensure that the individuals are provided with the right skill sets to obtain in-demand jobs,” Villanueva said. Under the bill, a Philippine Labor Force Competencies Competitiveness Program shall be established based on Labor Market Intelligence Reports. Villanueva emphasized that this will be industry-driven to ensure that individuals meet the demands of industries and equip them with the right skills for the job. The measure has been approved in the Senate on third and final reading on May 30 last year.
Sen. Joel Villanueva(Senate of the Philippines Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN) Villanueva, chairperson of the Senate committee on labor, employment, and human resources development, made the appeal as he called anew on the government to make sure that the workers who will be employed under the "Build, Build, Build" infrastructure program are skills-ready. “It has been our consistent call on the concerned government agencies — Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Education (DepEd), and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) — to up-skill our workers and address the problem of job-skills mismatch which becomes imperative with the implementation of the administration’s Build-Build-Build program,” Villanueva said in a statement. “I think the DOLE should already be reporting on the progress of the programs addressing the job-skills mismatch and TESDA on the tech-voc trainings. The agencies should already be working on the identified hard-to-fill jobs, among others,” he noted. According to the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), the administration’s ambitious infrastructure campaign will generate an average of 1.1 million jobs annually, mostly from the construction sector. NEDA also expects over 820,000 jobs to be created for this year with a number of projects rolled out nationwide. Villanueva said “there should be a strong academe-industry linkage" to ensure that the workers would be skills-ready for the infrastracture projects. The senator likewise urged members of the House of Representatives to pass a similar measure that would "democratize" access to skills training to help job-seekers be successful in landing jobs that match their skills. “In the Senate, we have already passed on third and final reading Senate Bill No. 1431 or the proposed Tulong Trabaho Act which aims to make tech-voc accessible to all and ensure that the individuals are provided with the right skill sets to obtain in-demand jobs,” Villanueva said. Under the bill, a Philippine Labor Force Competencies Competitiveness Program shall be established based on Labor Market Intelligence Reports. Villanueva emphasized that this will be industry-driven to ensure that individuals meet the demands of industries and equip them with the right skills for the job. The measure has been approved in the Senate on third and final reading on May 30 last year.