SPUR

Sending employees for skills training and upgrading is one of the key strategies recommended in the Tripartite Guidelines for Managing Excess Manpower.

To help companies with this strategy, the tripartite partners comprising the government, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) rolled out the Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience (SPUR) on 1 December 2008.

SPUR, a two-year programme leveraging on the extensive Continuing Education and Training (CET) system built over the years, helps employers and workers cope with manpower and employment challenges during the downturn. It encourages employers like you to send your employees for training and upgrade their skills. That way, when the economy recovers, you will have a more capable and competitive workforce better able to seize new opportunities.

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