BN Manifesto: Promise of more jobs opportunities for Malaysians
KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 (Bernama) -- The Barisan Nasional (BN) is eyeing to create wider job opportunities for Malaysians and reduce dependency on foreign workers to 15 per cent of the country's entire workforce.
This is among the pledges contained in the BN manifesto for the 14th general election launched by Prime Minister and BN chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today.
Carrying the theme 'With BN For A Greater Malaysia', the coalition also intends to propel high technology industries through increased foreign direct investment in targeted sectors in order to increase the number of high skilled jobs.
The BN also vowed to speed up the development of the Malaysian Vision Valley, a 150,000-hectare area that is projected to create 1.3 million job opportunities.
BN also assured to create 10,000 jobs in social entrepreneurship through special funds from government-linked companies (GLCs).
Following are BN's other pledges on this subject :
- Expanding the practice of flexible working hours in the public sector, and offering incentives to companies that adapt the system.
- Accelerating Forest Economy Policies based on the principle of sustainable management in order to generate income through downstream activities, the pharmaceutical industry, ecotourism and products made from natural sources.
- Intensifying the growth of downstream oil and gas sectors to expand opportunities for oil producing states.
- Establishing sustainable industry zones by identifying new investment locations and relocating existing industrial zones.
- Matching university students and future employers at an earlier stage through a Job Matching Committee under the SL1M 2.0 programme.
- Creating highly skilled construction workers by implementing training schemes and offering commensurate wages.
- Providing skills and work training opportunities for underprivileged youth.
- Increasing the intake of multi-racial students in the Integrated Industrial Training Programme to 1,000 participants.
- Ensuring the country's civil service reflects its ethnic diversity by striving to attract more non- Bumiputera communities to join the civil service.
-- BERNAMA
