Employment strategy leading to 2030 to be launched before budget - Clyde Caruana

The government will launch a national employment policy for the next nine years just a week before Budget 2022, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said on Wednesday. 
“We want to ensure that we not only strengthen our workforce but that people also have a good quality of life," he told party supporters at the end of a pre-budget consultation meeting themed X’Pajjiż Tixtieq Tħalli lil uliedek?
This meant the government needed to ensure the workforce was provided with high-quality job opportunities, he added.
Caruana said that various administrations had invested in workers throughout the past decades: “workers, along with those who invested in it, built this country. They built the country from scratch and we nowadays enjoy a particular level of quality of life... we worked for that.”

Caruana had hinted at a change in employment policy last year during an interview with Times of Malta. 
As former head of the state employment agency Jobsplus, Caruana was involved in the government’s plan to import foreign labour to sustain economic growth.
During his address on Wednesday, Caruana made little reference to foreign workers. Instead, he focused on education.
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