Policy to help govt make changes to labour law

National

THE Labour Market Information Services (LMIS) policy once in place will enable the Government to make legislative changes pertaining to the employment of expatriates in the country, an official says.
Technical and vocational training education (Tvet) official Daniel Tovu said there were about 40,000 expatriates employed in the country in jobs that could be filled by Papua New Guineans.
He said with the LMIS policy and the data base in place, the employment of expatriates would be reduced where positions could be localised.
Tovu is part of a group of government stakeholders finalising the LMIS policy that will be put through as a submission to the National Executive Council.
The purpose of the LMIS is to identify and establish a mechanism that would regulate, generate and update information on the country’s labour market.
Initiated by the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations (DLIR), LMIS is the labour market information and statistical system.
Tovu said there were some jobs in the market that were supposed to be for locals only but that was not always the case and they needed to find out why and address it through data and monitoring.
“We don’t have the data system in place,” he said.
“With the formulation of this policy document, we can know exactly how many Papua New Guineans are employed in the labour market within the country and overseas.
“This will help us know how much money is remitted back into the country and with expatriates how much money is remitted out of the country.”