{"id":575067,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/575067/?format=json","text_counter":218,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) T.G. Ali","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":460,"legal_name":"Tiyah Galgalo Ali","slug":"tiyah-galgalo-ali"},"content":"employment challenge is manifested in terms of 12.7 per cent of open unemployment rate, 21 per cent of under-employment, 46 per cent of working poor and 750,000 new entrants in the labour market. The rapid growing youth population or increased rapid youth population of 67 per cent of the adult population also indicates that the slow rate of job creation has put a lot of pressure on the labour market and there is an urgent need for intervention to address this pressure. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, promotion and full employment is a priority in a nation’s socio-economic policy. It enables an economically active population to attain and sustain livelihood through full productive and free chosen employment. The objectives of this employment policy are as follows:- 1. The proposed policy will help in terms of comprehensive strategy to encounter employment. 2. It will promote full productive and decent work that will enable those willing to work and secure jobs. 3. The creation of decent employment opportunities. 4. To build a pool of skilled adaptive self-reliant and enterprising labour force. 5. To improve labour market efficiency. 6. It will strengthen the labour administration system and social dialogue. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, having gone through the employment policy document, there emerged some critical challenges, namely:- 1. Low unsustainable economic growth – this has already been said during the discussion we had earlier on. 2. Limited growth and development of micro and small enterprises. 3. Unexploited potential of social and solidarity economy. 4. Low levels of productivity and competitiveness and technological gaps - the previous sessional papers have already indicated that. 5. Weak linkages between education, training institutions and industry. 6. Non-integrated industrial training and attachment systems. 7. Un-coordinated administration of labour migration - we know that quite a number of our unemployed people have gone out there and they have had quite a number of issues. 8. Gender inequality. 9. Weak framework for elimination of child labour and trafficking of persons. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are quite a number of proposed interventions in this particular policy; namely, 1. Re-energizing the sectoral growth to exploit the potential of the social and solidarity economy. 2. To establish and maintain labour market information system which is currently lacking. 3. Strengthened the framework for elimination of child labour and trafficking of persons. 4. Scaling up of best practices from past employment creation intervention and establishment of the National Employment Authority that should deal with matters of actualising the policy. The Committee’s observations on this policy are as follows:- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}