PM Outlines Plan for Labour Shortage | TVJ News – May 7 2022

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12 comments

  1. Why can’t the pm be creative and find ways to get jobs for Jamaicans… When will he start allowing the ganja the be used to earn more for Jamaica?

  2. There is no labour shortage in Jamaica. The unemployment rate is only now getting close to what might be considered full employment levels and this is at a time when the world is likely to enter a global recession. Many businesses in Jamaica are overstaffed. They have 10 people working where only 3 would be required in higher GDP per capita countries. We need several years of low unemployment rates (below 5%) to remove the slackness in the labour market and raise the GDP per capita high enough to reduce poverty among the working class. Labour shortages are usually accompanied by job hopping and rising wage levels as employers compete with each other to retain employees. That hasn’t happened in Jamaica. The PM is playing politics on this one and he has studied enough economics to know it. He’s following the wishes of his party’s corporate donors who love to pay people little and nothing to the detriment of Jamaica’s labour force.

    1. Jamaica has a hard time keeping it’s skilled workers Canada and the US will pay 10X more money for those labourers to come over. Since Jamaicans speak English it’s of no expense to integrate them into the working society of these developed anglophone nations.

    2. @manovrsb Migration should make it easier to maintain a low unemployment rate over a sustained period which, in turn, should result in higher average wage rates and higher productivity levels over time. Higher average wage rates in the private sector and the higher tax rates they bring will give the country the capacity to pay its civil servants more. For example, we can’t pay teachers, nurses, policemen, firemen and other civil servants $3M per year when the GDP per capita is only $800,000 per year without raising the GCT to some unreasonable amount like 90%.

  3. Get Jamaicans to come back home to work. Give jobs to the young people who are out there stealing and committing other crimes.

  4. With due respect, I beg to differ with the notion of making the City of Port More a parish, this do, or do not make qualified scenes.
    What will be a sensible decision would be allow Port More to become the largest city in the Caribbean as it’s flatley becoming.
    We should be considering separate Kingston from St Andrew for achieving a 15 Parish nation.

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