Gov’t to focus on construction and real estate labour with extended UN programme

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) is looking to focus on creating access to decent and productive employment opportunities for Cambodian youth within the construction and real estate sector through a new joint labour programme with the United Nations.

The Labour ministry and the United Nations agreed to extend the ‘UNited for Youth Employment in Cambodia’ on 25 July for the next five years, from 2020 to 2024 after it was launched in 2017. The programme allow young women and men to increasingly obtain decent and productive employment opportunities in response to market demand.

With this extended joint labour programme, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training H.E Ith Sam Heng has called for a need to focus on major sectors that are currently driving the job market.

“Currently, Cambodia has seen employment growth in some sectors including construction, tourism, entrepreneurship, real estate, and agro-industry, which requires the implementation of this new project to focus on these sectors for the youth,” the minister wrote on the MLVT Facebook page.

According to data from the Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC), the construction sector alone employs between 69, 400 to 69, 500 workers each day. Skilled construction workers earn between US$10 to US$15 daily while unskilled labour earn between US$7.5 to US$10 daily.

Although the construction sector and real estate sector accounted for about 15% of the total labour market,(read more), the sectors are demand more senior professionals.

Speaking during a May training course, Ms Pania Prak, Director of educational institute for construction and real estate Royal Chartered Academy Institute (RCI) said “we have labour, but at a junior level, and for senior expert professions​ we need more”.

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