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The Training/Retraining Programme

Given the severity of the employment impact arising out of COVID-19 and the impracticability of providing wage or income support to the affected, government has decided to frontload the training and retraining component of the NUIS to enable affected workers get back into employment. The programme is designed to preserve and upgrade their human capital and to facilitate their re-entry into productive employment at higher levels of performance. Hopefully, the programme will shorten their spell of joblessness and make life a bit more comfortable for the affected workers and their families.

The programme will be implemented in phases. The first phase will cover the two sectors that were most affected by the pandemic, namely, the private education sector and the tourism and hospitality sector. The programme targets about 15,000 workers for training and retraining in these sectors. Lessons learnt from the first phase will inform the roll out of subsequent phases.

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