Tag: NWDA
WORC to open for business in January
(CNS): The premier said that the new labour agency, Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC), which will be taking on the work permit and residency elements of the immigration department and merging them with the responsibilities that were part of the National Workforce Development Agency (NWDA), is expected to open in January. Speaking in the […]
CIG aiming for full local employment
(CNS): Among the Government of National Unity’s ambitions for the next two years, supported by its recently passed spending plan, is full employment for all Caymanians. According to various comments made by the premier over the last few weeks since he delivered the Budget Policy Statement, the creation of a new human resources department will […]
55 people in jobs via Ready2Work
(CNS): From over 100 participants in the government’s newest job placement scheme, just half of them have been placed in jobs so far and only half of those have permanent positions. There are 55 people who have been placed with employers through the Ready2Work initiative, with just 23 in long-term work and the rest in short-term […]
Job ads continue to stir up local concerns
(CNS): How bosses in Cayman go about recruiting overseas staff and what often appears to be the deliberate exclusion of local workers continues to raise concerns in the community but government seems unable to address the issue. In the latest case to attract attention, an unidentified hospitality employer was specifically seeking Canadian workers through a […]
Workforce agency boss quits post early
(CNS): Brian Holland, the US expert recruited to expand and improve the National Workforce Development Agency, has quit the post after less than two years in the job “due to personal reasons”, officials from the employment ministry said Tuesday. Recruitment for the vacancy will begin shortly, the ministry stated, but in the meantime Lois Kellyman, […]
Alden: Refusing permits would be disastrous
(CNS): Premier Alden McLaughlin has told opposition members that their idea of refusing work permits to create opportunities for Caymanians is “completely fallacious” and said it would have “disastrous consequences” for the country. As Finance Committee scrutinised the employment minister’s budget Monday, local unemployment and career development issues were hot button topics. Ezzard Miller (North […]
Most jobless are work ready, say officials
(CNS): The employment ministry has said that the majority of people who have registered with the National Workforce Development Agency and looking for jobs are ready for work and it is just a small percentage of the officially recorded unemployed that are not yet in a position to fit the demands of the workforce. While […]
Rivers calls for job transparency
(CNS): The employment minister is calling for all jobs available in the Cayman Islands to be posted with the National Workforce Development Agency and not just before a work permit is coming up for renewal. Tara Rivers said that she wants to see employers reveal all the jobs not held by locals long before permit […]
Survey finds 98% of job seekers not work ready
(CNS): A survey conducted by the National Workforce Development Agency (NWDA) of its registered clients who asked for support has found that 97.8% of local job seekers who responded were not work ready and have multiple barriers to getting a job. The survey is part of a newly released government report that has found a […]
Long road to welfare reform
(CNS): A catalogue of problems with government social assistance programmes are far from being addressed as the community affairs ministry is only at the start of a long road towards welfare reform and implementing a defined policy to deal with people in the Cayman Islands in need. Dorine Whittaker, the chief officer in the ministry, said staff […]
Premier: 1,500 jobless can’t all be unemployable
(CNS): The premier has stated that his government does not blame the business community for unemployment but he does not believe that the more than 1,500 Caymanians officially registered as jobless are all unemployable. Alden McLaughlin revealed that how government deals with local unemployment will be part of the current shake-up of the public sector […]
