AMMAN —
Minister of Labor
Nayef Steitieh stressed the importance of the public sector’s partnership with
the private sector, which plays a major role in promoting the growth of the
national economy and is a main employer of Jordanians, according to Al-Ghad
News.
اضافة اعلان
During his meeting with the members
and president of the
Amman Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Steitieh said that
the commercial sector is one of the most important component of the national
economy, and that it plays an important role in strengthening Jordan’s ties with
different countries in the world.
The minister highlighted the role
the private sector — particularly the commercial, agriculture, and services
sectors — plays in the national employment program, which is one of the top government
priorities in its economic action plan 2021–2023, which will focus on promoting
competition and stimulating employment.
Steitieh said that the
employment program aims at making available 60,000 job opportunities for Jordanian youth. He also
said that the ministry
contributes JD15,000 to salaries and transportation, and that the comprehensive
employment program aims at consolidating all training and employment efforts,
and ensuring that the education and training output meets the labor market
needs, as well as at empowering, employing and building the capacity of
Jordanians.
The ministry
is keen to develop and modernize the vocational training system, building on
achievements so far, as instructed by
His Majesty King Abdullah, and strengthen
partnership with the private sector, which will contribute to bolstering the
development of programs, training mechanisms, and modernization of the vocational
training institutions, to equip young trainees with skills and professions that
could help them enter the labor market, said Steitieh.
The minister stressed the importance
of integrating the commercial, services and agricultural sectors and of
establishing specialized training centers and institutions for those sectors, and
not for the industrial and construction sectors only.
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