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Enhancing Employment Opportunities and Employability Issues and future strategies

Enhancing Employment Opportunities and Employability Issues and future strategies. Ayanthi de Silva Deputy Director Department of National Planning. Chapter includes. Three policies of labour market have been evaluated Promoting job creation Ensuring equality in access to jobs

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Enhancing Employment Opportunities and Employability Issues and future strategies

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  1. Enhancing Employment Opportunities and EmployabilityIssues and future strategies Ayanthi de Silva Deputy Director Department of National Planning

  2. Chapter includes • Three policies of labour market have been evaluated • Promoting job creation • Ensuring equality in access to jobs • Helping the poor and vulnerable to acquire appropriate skills

  3. Issues • Severance pay system • Wage setting mechanism • Civil service hiring practice • Education and skill training

  4. Changes Suggested • Reduce the generosity of severance pay • Avoid direct Government intervening in wage setting • Avoid Government unplanned recruitment • Develop unemployment Insurance Scheme • Promote Social dialogue about the promotion of workers protection • Improve the access to education and training

  5. Key Strategies of the Government • Vision for the Sector A future of peace and prosperity in which all Sri Lankans enjoy a better quality of life free from poverty and deprivation, through the promotion of opportunities for women and men to obtain productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human

  6. Labour market situation • Low female labour force participation rate • Large share of informal sector employment but not protected by laws or severance • High level of unemployment among the females, youth, and more educated • Stagnant of real earnings of the estate sector workers • Large wage premium and non wage benefits of public sector jobs • Rigid labour laws

  7. Future Policy Directions • Employment creation (Productive and Sustainable) • Skills development and productivity Improvement • Labour laws and regulations • Employer- employee Relationship

  8. Future Policy Direction • Employment Generation • Formulate a comprehensive policy on speedy infrastructure development • Create greater opportunities for employment for women and youthand disabled • Reduce the share of employment in informal sector • Moving away from generating employment through the public sector • Transfer the unskilled labour migration to skilled migration

  9. Future Policy Directions Skills Development and Labour Productivity • Promote an effective Labour Market Information (LMI) system • Increase labour productivity • Enhance equality in the access to education and training

  10. Future Policy Directions Labour Laws and Regulations • Improve enforcement of legislation • Increase flexibility while ensuring adequate safeguards for workers • Introduce a system of Unemployment Insurance/Benefit

  11. Future Policy Directions Employer Employee Relationship • Create a harmonious industrial relations environment • Promote social dialogue for tri-partite consultation at national level:

  12. ayanthi@npd.tresuary.gov.lk Thank You

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