90% of workers find jobs after training

According to the officials of the Southern Training Center under the Cabinet-level Council of Labor Affairs’ Bureau of Employment and Vocational Training, between 720 and 900 people who attended the center’s 20 training classes over the past year have found jobs as technical operators in the area’s industrial district.

Center official Hung Chuen-fu said the training is designed to meet the needs of businesses and that the center welcomes women and university graduates.

Meanwhile, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu welcomed 600 workers who have been offered temporary government jobs under the city’s “Warm Winter Plan, “ as part of its efforts to boost the low employment rate in the southern port city, a result of the current tough economic conditions.

Under the plan, office clerk and laborer openings 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’s agencies have worked hard to create jobs, such as inviting factories and high-tech corporations to set up operations in the southern port city.

The mayor also noted that the city is seeking funds from the central government to help finance municipal construction and that other public projects, as well as privately funded investments, have kicked off.

She mentioned that another short-term public sector employment plan will recruit still more personnel from late November.

According to the city’s Bureau of Labor Affairs (BLA), meanwhile, it has also collaborated in propping up the city’s employment rate by mediating between businesses and people seeking work.

BLA Deputy Commissioner Shie Li-li said the bureau has from this year increased the number of such services from 37 to 97, but noted that some training classes provided by the city’ s bureau lack any participants at all.

The services also drew criticism from the city’s legislators and other social groups.

Legislator Jou Ling-wen said the total number of layoffs in Kaohsiung numbered 7,353 from January to September this year and expressed concern that a more serious wave of unemployment might be imminent.

Chen Jin-yi, chief of an unemployed workers alliance, contended that the classes being offered by the government cannot solve the problem in the short term and said unemployed workers need immediate job offers.

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