SPUR
SPUR
or Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience, is an enhanced
financial support scheme developed by the Singapore Workforce
Development Agency (WDA) in consultation with the tripartite partners
including the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Singapore
National Employers Federation (SNEF). SPUR leverages on the
extensive CET training system built over the years to scale up training
programmes. SPUR brings together the full range of skills upgrading
programmes with enhanced financial support that companies and workers
can tap on over the next two years.
SPUR for
Employers
SPUR encourages companies affected by declining business to
retain workers by sending them for training, as opposed to retrenching
them. This will help employers to save on manpower costs,
better
manage their excess manpower during the downturn and at the same time,
upgrade their workers to strengthen business.
SPUR for
Workers
SPUR aims to redeploy unemployed workers as well as help in-employment
workers to up-skill for new and better jobs. Employed and unemployed
workers no longer need to wait for their employers to send them for
training, as they can now sign up for training at CET Centres directly.
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