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CLA says work for disadvantaged scheme might end

The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) yesterday said it may cancel an annual program that provides part-time work for disadvantaged individuals, saying that government resources had been allocated to other agencies.

For the past four years, the council has held an annual program that calls on businesses to offer part-time jobs to young adults from single parent families, or those with parents who are disabled, have suffered occupational accidents, live in poverty or suffer other disadvantaged situations.

The openings vary from one month to two months during the summer break to year-long part-time jobs.

This year, however, it has been difficult to ask businesses to provide jobs because the program, as usual, does not offer the kind of financial incentives provided by other government agencies such as the Ministry of Education, said a council official who declined to be identified.

The official was referring to a recent program by the Ministry of Education that provides a subsidy of NT$22,000 a month to companies that provide internships to those who have graduated from college in the past three years. The subsidy, which may last up to a year, had been meant as an incentive for businesses to help lower the unemployment rate as graduation season rolls around and tens of thousands of new graduates join the country’s labor force.
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