Why labour must move with changing times

Phyllis Kandie (Photo: Courtesy)

AS the government continues to make big investments in transport, water, infrastructure, energy and education sectors, greater focus must now move towards reforming the labour sector. We are alive to the urgent need to transform the labour sector to align it with the national economic goals and to realize the Jubilee government’s target of creating 1.3 million jobs annually over the next five years.

In order to achieve this, we understand we must modernise our human resource planning, development and utilization decisions. This can only be done by acquiring and exploiting quality and reliable labour data to address the gap of understanding our labour supply and demand information.