Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Aubyn Hill is calling on Jamaican employers to pay their employees better as part of efforts to stem the migration of skilled labour and to attract and keep workers to avert a crisis that is threatening continued economic growth.
“If you’re not paying the right price, you not going to find any [workers] and you going to lose the ones that you’ve trained,” Hill said as he joined a discussion at the Terra Nova Hotel in St Andrew Tuesday amongst stakeholders at the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) president breakfast forum. The forum was held under the theme: ‘Let’s Get Serious about our Logistics-Centred Economy and Special Economic Zones.’
“Clearly you don’t want production to get out of place where it’s not competitive, but we have to react to the market force,” Hill cited in carefully chosen words to avoid a backlash.
He said while the Government will continue to train and certify people, businesses will have to adjust to keep Jamaican workers in the country.
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