The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) will make tackling unemployment among middle-aged and the elderly its priority this year, Council Minister Jennifer Wang (王如玄) told the Cabinet yesterday.
As the economy has started to recover and businesses begin to recruit more staff, young people will have an easier time finding jobs than middle aged and elderly persons, whose working skills may not meet requirements of available jobs in a changing marketplace.
“This is not the first time there has been a structural unemployment problem in the country. It occurs again and again. What the government should do is to help disadvantaged workers learn new skills and create the types of jobs that may be suitable for them,” she told a press conference following the weekly Cabinet meeting.
The council has set a goal of helping 82,482 people secure jobs, including 47,700 jobs for middle-aged, elderly, disabled, single parents and the long-term unemployed, she said.
During a one-year period, the government will give a company that hires a disadvantaged worker a monthly subsidy of NT$17,280 for the first three months and NT$10,000 for the remaining nine months.
The public sector will provide a total of 15,000 six-month jobs to help acquaint the disadvantaged with new techniques, Wang said.
The types of jobs offered under the program will include community caregivers, tourism-related work, factory safety inspectors and home visitors for the unemployed, Wang said. The government will also provide job-training opportunities in the tourism industry and home-healthcare industry to teach working skills, she said.
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