A labour expert is skeptical about the impact the Youth Employment Agency’s (YEA) Job Centre will make in solving Ghana’s unemployment situation.
Mr Yiadom Boakye Amponsah said the initiative is a kneejerk reaction to solving the increasing unemployment situation in the country.
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday, September 2, 2019 launched the flagship initiative to facilitate sustainable employment for both skilled and unskilled Ghanaian youth between the ages of 15 and 35 years.
Job Centre is an online platform (www.yeajobcentre.gov.gh), which would connect job seekers to potential employment providers in the public and private sectors of the economy.
The centre, Dr Bawumia added, would also assist job seekers with career counselling and training services, curriculum vitae preparation, agency placement and a walk-in hub that will provide other auxiliary services to job seekers.
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But, speaking on Adom FM’s morning show, Dwaso Nsem programme, Thursday, Mr Amponsah said the Job Centre is not sustainable.
He explained that just like under the erstwhile Mahama administration, the laudable project will be redundant should the ruling New Patriotic Party lose the 2020 general election.
What will make it sustainable; the labour expert stressed, is for the Akufo-Addo government to adopt a sustained purposive approach to creating jobs.
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He maintained that, the fundamentals for the creation of the Job Centre is weak, hence will not stand the test of time.
Mr Amponsah urged the government to do due diligence and ensure the Job Centre initiative is sustainable.
Source: Ghana|Adomonline.com| Adomonline.com | Adwoa Gyasiwaa Agyeman