World Employment Confederation (WEC) – Conference Report “Steering a labour market in Transformation”
OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMME: 53rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 6 – 8 September 2021
The 53rd Annual Conference which was hosted in Madrid and accommodated face-to-face and virtual participation, centred around 4 main themes, namely:
- Leveraging Technological Change
- Understanding Changing Employee Expectations
- Thrive Under Increased Uncertainty
- Focus on Spain and Latin America
Building a Common Language for Skills at Work A Global Taxonomy:
The combination of the ongoing COVID-19-related global recession and increased automation in the future of work has led to a large-scale disruption of the jobs and skills landscape. While previous generations of talent could expect linear career progression and engagement in formal learning that decreases over time, the workforce of the future will be required to rapidly learn and relearn new skills as reskilling, upskilling and redeployment define the ‘new normal’ in the future of work.
Discretionary Grants Advert: Call for Applications for Levy Paying Entities :
The Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Services SETA) invites Levy paying entities to apply for discretionary grant funding to Learnerships Employed and Skills Programme Employed interventions