Govt sets aside extra S$14m each year to help PMETs find new jobs

Singapore

LOCAL professionals, managers, executives and technicians, a group collectively called PMETs, will be given help to find jobs in new industries.

To this end, the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) will set aside an additional S$14 million each year over the next two years to equip this group with new job skills so they can make a new start.

This was announced by Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say at an Adapt and Grow Career Fair at the Lifelong Learning Institute on Tuesday.

The additional funds brings the total funding for course fees and salary support for WDA's professional conversion programmes (PCPs) to S$40 million…