Managing excess manpower and investing in your business competitiveness

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• Managing excess manpower and investing in your
  business competitiveness

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Programmes Under SPUR
How SPUR Helps Employers
What is SPUR
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What is SPUR?

• A tripartite umbrella programme to help companies
  and workers manage the economic downturn and
  invest in skills for recovery
• strengthen confidence in the local labour market
• support upgrading of skills and capabilities of
  businesses and local workers
• Leverage on the extensive CET training system to
  scale up training programmes
• Doubling training capacity
• Covering key sectors with centres spread all over
  Singapore
• Enhanced funding for training

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A Two-year Tripartite Programme starting 1
December 08
Funding support and skills programme development
Roll out SPUR programmes through the Employment
and Employability Institute (e2i)
Outreach to companies to upgrade their HR
capabilities
SPUR
Tripartite Effort with Strong Community Support
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Key Objectives
Cut Costs, Save Jobs Help companies manage
excess manpower and reduce unemployment /
under-employment
Build Capabilities for Recovery Strengthen
capabilities in labour market and prepare for
upturn
Reskill Upskill Help local workers upgrade
skills and convert to new jobs
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How SPUR helps Employers and Workers
WORKERS
EMPLOYERS
Objectives
Industry Upgrading
Job Matching
Build Capabilities for Recovery
More Skills Upgrading Pathways
More Skills Upgrading Pathways
Reskill and Upskill
Higher Absentee Payroll
Training Allowance
Cut Costs, Save Jobs
Higher Course Fee Support
Higher Course Fee Support
CET Centres
SNEF
CDCs
NTUC e2i
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Background
Programmes Under SPUR
How SPUR Helps Employers
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How SPUR helps employers?

• DEPLOY
• Utilize downtime to upgrade skills to employees
• Move your retrenched workers into new jobs and
  companies

• UPGRADE
• Move your workers up to higher-level jobs within
  the organisation
• Upgrade capabilities of your organisation

PREPARE FOR FUTURE To become more competitive
in preparation for upturn
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SPUR for Employers
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With SPUR, companies get trained workers better
able to perform in their jobs
EXAMPLE Rank--file worker in a manufacturing
company Mr Ng, 46, a technical assistant earns
monthly salary of 1,400
WITHOUT SPUR 1 month payroll to company is 1,400
SPUR SAVE COST ENHANCE SKILLS Company sends
him for 1 months upgrading in Workplace Literacy
Numeracy (WPLN, 90 hrs, Nett 53.50),
Certificate in Generic Manufacturing (CGM, 64.5
hrs, Nett 270) ABSENTEE PAYROLL at 10/hr,
company receives 1,123 for 1 month and needs
only to incur payroll of 277 COURSE FEES
Company co-pays only 10 of course fees or 323.50
TOTAL COST 1,400
TOTAL COST 600.50 save 57 better-skilled
worker
In addition, the company can also look forward to
receiving Jobs Credit for preserving jobs in the
downturn. The Jobs Credit is calculated based on
12 of the first 2,500 of the derived wage cost
for each eligible employee on the employers CPF
payroll.
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With SPUR, companies get trained workers better
able to perform in their jobs
EXAMPLE PMET worker in a manufacturing company Ms
Tan, 36, a Admin Manager earns monthly salary of
3,400
WITHOUT SPUR 1 month payroll to company is 3,400
SPUR SAVE COST ENHANCE SKILLS Company sends
him for 1 months upgrading in Workplace Safety
and Health (136 hrs, Nett 331.70) and HR WSQ (24
hrs, Nett 69.55) ABSENTEE PAYROLL at 10/hr,
company receives 1,600 for 1 month and needs to
incur payroll of 1,800 COURSE FEESCompany
co-pays only 10 of course fees or 401.25
TOTAL COST 3,400
TOTAL COST 2,201.25 Save 35 better-skilled
worker
In addition, the company can also look forward to
receiving Jobs Credit for preserving jobs in the
downturn. The Jobs Credit is calculated based on
12 of the first 2,500 of the derived wage cost
for each eligible employee on the employers CPF
payroll.
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How to get Higher Course Fee funding under SPUR

• Three Easy Steps
• Select training courses
• under SPUR
• Contact Training Centre
• Before course starts, apply for higher course
  fees subsidy via www.sdf.gov.sg
• Some CET Centres have received the funding
  subsidy up-front so companies need only pay the
  balance when they register their workers for
  training at these centres.

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How to get Higher Absentee Payroll under SPUR

• Two Easy Steps
• Apply at www.srp.org.sg before course starts
• Company pay workers salary during training and
  get reimbursed later

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Background
How SPUR Helps Employers
Programmes Under SPUR
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Over 1,000 courses Pre-Approved under SPUR
All WSQ courses
WSQ by CET centres
WSQ by other WDA approved providers

• Examples
• Nitec in Information Technology
• Higher Nitec in Electronics Engineering

NITEC / Higher NITEC courses for adult workers
Polytechnic Diploma / Advanced Dip / Specialist
Dip for adult workers

• Examples
• Diploma in Technology
• Specialist Diploma in Arts Events
• Management
• Advanced Diploma in Process Control
• Instrumentation

Complete list available at www.wda.gov.sg
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Programmes under SPUR for (sector)??? as at ????

• SPUR Providers to list the courses that they are
  offering

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Tapping on SPUR funding for in-house courses
Approved on case by case basis
Adhere to Tripartite Guidelines on managing
excess manpower
Industry Recognised Certified, Supported by
Economic Agencies
Package withEmployability Enhancement Courses
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Certifiable Programmes beyond SPUR

• There are many other certifiable programmes
  beyond SPUR that employers can tap on to advance
  with skills.
• These courses enjoy both course fee and absentee
  payroll support.

To find out more about these certifiable courses,
please visit http//www.sdf.gov.sg
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Benefits of training your workers

• Higher company productivity
• Better management any excess manpower during this
  downturn
• Flexible redeployment of staff to jobs that
  require higher skills and better knowledge
• Retention of better-trained and qualified
  employees who will be difficult to come by during
  periods of high labour demand.
• Upgrade workers to strengthen business
  competitiveness for the upturn

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For more information
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