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.
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