Some 90 percent of previously unemployed workers in southern Taiwan have found jobs after receiving technical education provided by the region’s training center, Council of Labor Affairs officials said yesterday.
Officials from the council’s Southern Training Center said between 720 and 900 people who attended the center’s 20 training classes over the past year have found jobs as technical operators. Center official said the training was designed to meet the needs of businesses and that the center would welcome women and university graduates.
Meanwhile, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) yesterday welcomed 600 workers who have been offered temporary government jobs under the city’s “Warm Winter Plan,” as part of its effort to boost the employment rate in the city.
Under the plan, office clerk and laborer positions have been offered at the Kaohsiung City Police Headquarters, the Bureau of Social Affairs, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Civil Affairs Bureau and the Bureau of Public Works.
Chen said the city was seeking funds from the central government to help finance municipal construction as well as other public and privately funded investment projects. Another short-term public sector employment plan would recruit still more personnel from late this month, she said.
The city’s Bureau of Labor Affairs said it has also collaborated in propping up the city’s employment rate by mediating between businesses and people seeking work.
The services, however, also drew criticism from the city’s councilor and other social groups.
Democratic Progressive Party City Councilor Chou Ling-wen (周玲妏) said 7,353 people were laid off in Kaohsiung between January and September and a more serious wave of unemployment might be imminent.
Chen Chin-yi (陳進義), chief of an unemployed workers alliance, said that the classes offered by the government could not solve the problem in the short term, adding that unemployed workers needed jobs immediately.
COLLABORATION: As TSMC is building an advanced wafer fab in Dresden, Germany, it needs to build a comprehensive supply chain in Europe, Joseph Wu said Taiwan is planning to team up with the Czech Republic to build a semiconductor cluster in the European country, National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) said on Friday. Wu, who led a Taiwanese delegation at the annual GLOBSEC Forum held in Prague from Friday to today, said in a news conference that Taiwan seeks to foster cooperation between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and its counterparts in Czechia. Such cooperation is expected to transform the country into one of the most important semiconductor clusters in Europe over the next three to five years, he added. As TSMC is building an advanced
A joint declaration by Pacific leaders was reissued yesterday morning with mentions of Taiwan removed after China slammed an earlier version as a “mistake” that “must be corrected.” After five days of talks in Tonga, a “cleared” communique was released on Friday that reaffirmed a 30-year-old agreement allowing Taiwan to take part in the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF). However, the wording immediately raised the ire of Chinese diplomats, who piled pressure on Pacific leaders to amend the document. The forum reissued the communique without explanation yesterday morning, conspicuously deleting the paragraph concerning the bloc’s “relations with Taiwan.” “It must be a
A tropical depression in waters east of the Philippines could develop into a tropical storm as soon as today and bring rainfall as it approaches, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday, while issuing heat warnings for 14 cities and counties. Weather model simulations show that there are still considerable differences in the path that the tropical depression is projected to take. It might pass through the Bashi Channel to the South China Sea or turn northeast and move toward the sea south of Japan, CWA forecaster Yeh Chih-chun (葉致均) said, adding that the uncertainty of its movement is still high,
TAIWANESE INNOVATION: The ‘Seawool’ fabric generates about NT$200m a year, with the bulk of it sourced by clothing brands operating in Europe and the US Growing up on Taiwan’s west coast where mollusk farming is popular, Eddie Wang saw discarded oyster shells transformed from waste to function — a memory that inspired him to create a unique and environmentally friendly fabric called “Seawool.” Wang remembered that residents of his seaside hometown of Yunlin County used discarded oyster shells that littered the streets during the harvest as insulation for their homes. “They burned the shells and painted the residue on the walls. The houses then became warm in the winter and cool in the summer,” the 42-year-old said at his factory in Tainan. “So I was
RSS