By Ramesh Subbaraman
Staying Ready, Relevant and Resilient – These are the 3Rs which Professionals, Managers and Executives (PMEs) will have to constantly embrace in their working life, said NTUC Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) Patrick Tay when he addressed some 200 PMEs at the ’PME Learning & Networking Fair’ on 7 October 2015 at the Lifelong Learning Institute.
The event was a tripartite effort by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency, NTUC and the Singapore National Employers Federation in support of strengthening the Singaporean core.
Tripartism At Work
Many of those who attended the session were mature PMEs. According to ASG Tay, this group, especially those aged 40 and above, has been identified as the most vulnerable in a nation’s economic restructuring process and employment outlook.
Tripartite partners have come together to organise targeted programmes to address the concerns and needs of the PMEs.
From the Government’s and Labour Movement’s perspective, there is a need to pay particular attention to PMEs as these workers are going to be a growing segment of the workforce.
ASG Tay added that he intends to pay particular attention to the challenges facing the PME sector in the next term of Parliament which is due to convene in January 2016.
Among the topics he plans to zoom in on are the success rate of the National Jobs Bank, connecting people to the jobs being advertised and strengthening the Fair Consideration Framework.
Source: NTUC This Week
