Labour Market Forum 2010 - Planning Institute of Jamaica

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Policy Requirements: Data Standardization → For the labour market to operate efficiently a standardized system of data and information collection and dissemination is necessary. 94
→ Standardization is required in respect to industry, occupation, skills & competencies, etc. Policy Requirements: Institutional Linkages → The principal local institutions and agencies that impact on Jamaica’s labour market are as follows: – Ministries of Labour & Social Security, Education, Finance & Public Service and Industry & Commerce. – Universities, HEART Trust/NTA – The Planning Institute of Jamaica and the Statistical Institute of Jamaica – Jamaica Employers’ Federation – Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions → There needs to be a greater degree of cooperation and collaboration between them, led by the government Policy Requirements: Wage Negotiation and Collective Labour Agreements → Wage negotiations are not usually conducted with the utmost efficiency and urgency in Jamaica. 95
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Labour Market Forum 2010 Jobs for G
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12:00 p.m. - 12:20 p.m. Mr. Benthan
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Gladstone Anthony Hutchinson, Phd D
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Professor Rosalea Hamilton Ba (Hons
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Mr. Wayne Chen Wayne Chen is the Ch
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Mr. Benthan H. Hussey, B.A., M.Sc.
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Jamaica Producers Group, Caribbean
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Introduction In a nutshell the labo
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evenues which led to the ending of
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Despite the aforementioned challeng
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Hence, while probably a moral and n
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in the brighter promise of the futu
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As Minister of Labour with portfoli
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e-launching its Labour Market Infor
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Professional Gaps in the Labour Mar
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“Jobs for Growth: The Trade Union
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perhaps most importantly, he argued
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and the equity considerations which
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to break with the system. It is equ
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jobs, quality jobs, decent work are
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pay and productivity, important fac
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