The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) plans to enhance Workforce Singapore’s Career Conversion Programmes (CCPs) from April 1. CCPs provide employers with salary support to support mid-career new hires or existing employees to reskill and take up new job roles with good longer-term prospects.
The Singapore government will increase CCP salary support caps and expand the eligibility of existing employees who qualify for reskilling into growth jobs.
For mature or long-term unemployed workers who are eligible for up to 90% salary support, the salary support cap will be raised from $6,000 to $7,500 per month. For other CCP participants who are eligible for up to 70% salary support, the government will also increase the salary support cap from $4,000 to $5,000 per month.
After these enhancements, employers can receive up to $45,000 of salary support for each trainee for a typical six-month programme.
Currently, CCP reskilling support for existing employees is limited to employees presently in at-risk or vulnerable job roles. Going forward, the government will support reskilling of any existing employee taking up growth jobs identified under the Industry Transformation Maps (ITMs) or Jobs Transformation Maps (JTMs).
To enable employers to prepare their workers for job switches, the government will incorporate Structured Career Planning (SCP) workshops for employers to better support their employees embarking on CCP, starting with sectors such as Financial Services, Infocomm and Media, Retail and Precision Engineering.
Through the SCP workshops, prospective employers will be able to conduct meaningful one-to-one career conversations with existing employees identified to undergo reskilling into new growth job roles under CCP. This will equip line managers and HR with capabilities to support their workers in developing career development plans.