Tag: NWDA
Success rate of NWDA in question
(CNS): The employment minister has said the government’s National Workforce Development Agency is not a recruitment agency but still aims to help people find work. The ministry’s job centre was called into question Friday, when members of Finance Committee queried what the agency was doing, as it voted for over $1.5 million for this year’s […]
Local jobless rate falls below 8%
(CNS): The latest figures from the Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) have revealed that the official national unemployment rate fell to 4.7 per cent at the end of 2014. The unemployment rate among Caymanians was estimated to be at 7.9 per cent from a high of 9.4 per cent recorded in 2013. As the debate […]
NWDA disputes quantity of professionals out of work
(CNS): The National Workforce Development Agency has disputed the recent interpretation by CNS of data released to a reader about the profile of its 485 job seekers. The release of the information appeared to indicate that at least half of the unemployed locals were looking for work in what could be defined as white-collar, professional work […]
CITA and NWDA back on track over tourism jobs
(CNS): Cayman’s tourism association, government’s job agency and a local MLA appear to have patched up their differences over the recruitment of locals into the sector. Government’s back bench MLA Alva Suckoo had raised a number of concerns about a recent job drive but a meeting with CITA last week has left him “encouraged” that […]
Over 50% of jobless NWDA clients are professionals
(CNS): More than half of the Caymanians who are registered with the National Workforce Development Agency as unemployed and seeking jobs are not minimum wage, unqualified or inexperienced workers but people with professional backgrounds. From Architects and bank managers to psychologists and teachers, the unemployment problem is going well-beyond the issue of so-called unemployability.
CITA threatens to quit working with NWDA
(CNS): The local tourism association has threatened to pull out of its partnership with the government’s job agency following negative publicity surrounding its most recent job drive. Bodden Town MLA Alva Suckoo raised significant concerns about the potential manipulation of the exercise by employers trying to justify permits. But CITA has hit back at both the […]
NWDA seeks fair outcome to job drive
(CNS): In the wake of allegations by an MLA that the recent job drive by the Cayman Islands Tourism Association (CITA) in partnership with government’s job agency was manipulated, the National Workforce Development Agency (NWDA) has said it still hopes that Caymanian job seekers referred to employers as a result of the exercise would be […]
Job ad infractions continue
(CNS): The issue of recruitment advertisements in the local press is continuing to aggravate local job seekers still battling to find work. Over the last few months CNS has raised a catalogue of issues relating to infractions by employers who are trying to circumvent immigration and labour laws to retain work permit holders when Caymanians […]
Workforce agency reaches out to unemployed
(CNS): As government continues to wrestle with the problem of significant unemployment among the local workforce in the face of more than 20,000 valid work permits on the islands, the National Workforce Development Agency is hitting the road next week. The agency is hoping to help jobless Caymanians find work and help them navigate the […]
