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SLFEB
to promote foreign jobs for professionals Sri
Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) chairman Jagath Wellawatte
said a new campaign on these lines is to be launched soon after
a comprehensive 3-day meeting in Dubai recently discussed all these
issues. “The conference had two objectives – promotion of new job categories in the skilled area and its prospects, and the welfare of our workers,” Mr Wellawatte told The Sunday Times. He said while unskilled workers including domestic workers will continue to fill jobs in labour-receiving countries, Sri Lanka wants to also promote migration of professional workers due to the demand and also because it reduces the social impact on families here unskilled women seek jobs abroad. “We asked our missions to assess the job potential in these countries in the next 10-15 years and want to plan accordingly once we have enough information. As of now there seems to be a growing demand for IT experts, nurses and care-givers to look after the elderly particularly in Europe,” the SLFEB chief said. But he said it take at least three years to train nurses and care-givers and the government has to consider carefully how to tackle the demand for these sectors. On the welfare side, missions were asked to look at the regulations and rules in those countries and see how problems could be eliminated for Sri Lankan workers. |
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