Transcript Department of Labour

DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
THEME: YOUTH AT THE CENTRE OF
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
2013-06-21
Background
• It is estimated that approximately 3 million of unemployed people are aged
between 15 and 35;
• Young people who live in poor neighbourhoods with bad schools and little
support are worse off.
• They have little, if any, access, to social networks that could link them to job
opportunities with their contemporaries, and their parents are likely to have
been unemployed themselves for substantial periods of time
• They struggle to access appropriate training opportunities to improve their
employability, or set up their own businesses
Background
Rate of unemployed and not in labour force youth (May 2013)
Province
Percentage
WC
32.0
EC
33.8
NC
33.4
FS
32.4
KZN
32.4
NW
39.6
GP
34.4
MP
36.7
LP
30.5
Policy interventions by the
Department
The Department has introduced the new Employment Services Bill
and it seeks to create an enabling environment to;
• strengthen the Department’s employment services functions.
• to assist job seekers to access employment and training
opportunities.
• to assist employers to access the government’s job seekers data
base for matching and placement opportunities.
The unemployed youth registered on the job-seekers data base will
be given special attention.
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DoL Services targeting Youth
The core range of services provided for the youth are:
• Job placement assistance including registration and matching services
for placement in the formal sector.
• Internships for graduate youth.
• Job preparation/employability enhancement.
• Employment counseling.
• Career information and self-help career guidance.
• Referral to training opportunities, as well as job creation and public
works programmes.
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DoL’s Modus Operandi
Pursuit of various initiatives to enhance youth employment opportunities
and these include;
Promoting experimental ways of providing young people with mentoring,
training opportunities, linkages to the labour market and useful work experience
Identifying projects where young people in schools spend time in places of
work, where they will receive mentorship and a sense of the effort required and
the opportunities offered within actual careers
Identifying experimental programmes are required that start small, are
rigorously monitored and evaluated and are then scaled up on the basis of their
demonstrated success.
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DoL’s Modus Operandi
Pursuit of various initiatives to enhance youth employment opportunities
and these include;
Identifying and supporting programmes that take school learners for holiday
jobs, helping some to work their way up into the system and find viable career
paths.
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MINISTERIAL FLAGSHIP PROJECTS
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INITIATIVES UNDERWAY OR BEING
EXPLORED
Pursuit of various initiatives to enhance youth employment opportunities
and these include;
Conducting Jobs Fairs cum Job Exhibitions targeting the unemployment in
general and the unemployed youth in particular. (Young people are encouraged
to participate in these Jobs Fairs in their areas)
Initiating a Desktop Support Technician Training project targeting about a 1000
young participants. On completion of the course, some of them will be
absorbed in the Department of Labour and others placed in other Government
Departments and the private sector.
Those who cannot be placed will be assisted to set up their own enterprises as
support technicians.
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INITIATIVES BEING EXPLORED
Pursuit of various initiatives to enhance youth employment opportunities
and these include;
Provinces will asked to identify X number of young people to be placed on a
national training programme in various construction disciplines; viz;
• Brick Laying
• Plastering
• Plumbing
• Electrical tubing and wiring
The trainees be linked to the delivery of government Housing programme under
supervision of a reputable construction entity.
Government to facilitate the supply of building material and tools of the trade to
the trainees.
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INITIATIVES BEING EXPLORED
Pursuit of various initiatives to enhance youth employment opportunities
and these include;
Provinces will be asked to identify X number of young people and seasonal
workers to be placed on a national training programme in various farming and
tourism disciplines targeting local tourists; viz;
• Farming – Targeting fresh Produce & Other
• Poultry
• Tour guides
• Hospitality
Government to assist secure markets for the farm produce
Government to make land available for the trainees who may be encouraged to
form cooperatives and /or their own enterprises.
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INITIATIVES BEING EXPLORED
Pursuit of various initiatives to enhance youth employment opportunities
and these include;
Mining Sector:
Exploring opportunities in beneficiation for small enterprises, social enterprises
and communities.
Exploring opportunities in mining - related logistics such as storage,
components and daily consumables.
identifying change agents and or entities to facilitate the leveraging of the
opportunities.
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INITIATIVES BEING EXPLORED
Pursuit of various initiatives to enhance youth employment opportunities
and these include;
Provinces will be asked to identify X number of young people and the
retrenched/displaced workers to be placed on a national training programme
seeking to build expertise in various aspects of the green economy including but
not limited to;
• Solar Water Geysers – Manufacturing, Installation and maintenance.
• Designing and offering bridging training courses to facilitate the certification
of uncertified plumbers,
Identify young people and displaced workers who are welders but require upskilling to coded welders that are required in the energy sector.
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INITIATIVES BEING EXPLORED
Pursuit of various initiatives to enhance youth employment opportunities
and these include;
Training opportunities in the Marine sector;
The Department has entered into a partnership with SAMSA to train young
people on various disciplines in the Marine sector including;
Shipping
Tourism
Engineering, shipping repairs and maintenance
Seafarer Cadet training programme
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Where do we provide DoL services
• Labour Centres - 125 Labour Centres, 72 out of 139 Thusong Centres
and various visiting points
• Mobile trucks – 19
• 2 Mobile PES busses with internet connectivity
• 12 Sheltered Employment Factories
• Productivity SA HQ and 3 Regional Offices
• Registration as workseeker and registration of opportunities via DoL
website (ONLINE)
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Disclaimer
• Please note that some these initiatives are at different levels
development.
• Some are active whilst others are either on the verge of being launched
or are still at a conceptual phases.
• The bulk of the projects are coordinated through the Labour Activation
Programme located in the Unemployment Insurance Fund.
• The public employment services related initiatives are located in the
Public Employment Services Branch of the department.
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Beneficiaries of the Public Employment
Services
Employers
Job-seekers
Workers
•Private companies
•Public Service
•Parastatals
•Private Employment
Agencies
•New entrants to labour
market (youth)
•Long-term
unemployed
•Ex-offenders
•Veterans
•Retrenches' / UIF
claimants
•People with disabilities
• Underemployed
• Workers in distress
and restructuring
companies
• Migrant workers
•Injured workers
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