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About SPUR
SPUR or
Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience, is an enhanced
financial support scheme developed by the Singapore Workforce
Development Agency (WDA) in consultation with tripartite partners,
Ministry of Manpower and National Union Trade Congress (NTUC) and the
Singapore National Employers Federation. SPUR Leveraging on the
extensive CET training system built over the years to scale up training
programmes, SPUR brings together the full range of skills upgrading
programmes with enhanced financial support that companies and workers
can tap on over the next two years.
SPUR For Employers
SPUR
encourages companies affected by declining business to retain workers
by sending them for training, as opposed to retrenching them. This
will help employers to save on manpower costs, better manage their
excess manpower during the downturn and at the same time, upgrade
their workers to strengthen business competitiveness for the upturn.
SPUR For Workers
SPUR aims
to redeploy unemployed workers as well as help in-employment workers
to up-skill for new and better jobs. Employed and unemployed workers
no longer need to wait for their employers to send them for training, as they can now
sign up for training at CET Centres directly.
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