Plan International Malawi and Malawi Government have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), which aims at establishing a strategic collaboration in job creation to address youth unemployment and skills mismatch between the industry and training institutions. The MoU, other things, calls for joint planning and implementation of some components of programmes and/or projects and campaigns […]
In most countries and governments in the world, there is a challenge of joblessness. Usually, job creation becomes a campaign strategy during elections. In fact, promises to create jobs attract voters for aspiring leaders. During the 2020 election, President Lazarus Chakwera and his vice, Saulos Chilima promised Malawians they would create a million jobs. This […]
Leader of opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has said it is the responsibility of any capable individuals to support government in its fight against the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic because its further spread is catastrophic for the Malawi economy and the population. He said this on Thursday, August 20, 2020 after he donated assorted Personal […]
Agricultural Commercialization Project of Malawi (AGCOM) says it is committed to ensure implementation of Government effort in the creation of the much touted of 1 million jobs promised by the Tonse Alliance led government. AGCOM coordinator Teddie Nakhumwa, said this in Lilongwe during a press conference, saying his project is aimed at transforming small scale […]
Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo and his deputy Vera Kamtukule have said they undertaking Ministerial consultations with some key stakeholders in both the public and private sector including the informal business sector to leverage on potential strategies that can create jobs. Kandodo, who on Friday toured Lilongwe and Salima technical colleges, said the technical colleges […]
Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo has told a grouping of graduate interns who demanded an outright employment in the civil service after undergoing internship program for about two years that that it is impossible to employ all interns. Kandodo said this when he engaged the executive committee of the interns to iron out the issues […]
President Lazarus Chakwera faces a new wave of protests from the youth section of the Tonse Alliance led government who feel the President is being unfair to them by recalling retired individuals into the public service at the expense of the loafing youth, saying it does not reflect well on ‘Tonse Philosophy’. But Minister if […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima has asked the Ministry of Youth and Sports to immediately move into action to tackle the youth employment crisis with specific youth empowerment interventions. In his briefing after meeting Minister of Youth and Sports, Ulemu Msungama and officials from his ministry as part of updates on Public Sector Reforms he heads, the Vice-President […]
Government, through the Ministry of Labour, has developed a road map to fulfill its promise of creating one million (1, 000, 000) jobs for the country’s citizens, especially the youth. Speaking on Monday during a media briefing in Lilongwe, Minister of Labour, Kenny Kandodo, said the road map is to ensure the vision of creating […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopedul Lazarus Chakwera has said job creation, one among major priorities the alliance will embark on within a year once ushered into power in the forthcoming 23rd June, 2020 Fresh Presidential Election (FPE). Chakwera, who was addressing people during a whistle stop tour in Chitipa district, lamented on the stampede […]
YouthDecide Campaign, a grouping of civil society organizations advancing rights of the youth in Malawi, has asked the Malawi government and its watchdog institutions to institute credible investigations into the “shambolic” walk-in recruitment process that ended up creating a deadly stampede at Katoto in Mzuzu. The Ministry of Health on Tuesday conducted a walk-in interviews […]
Several people mostly youth were injured after thousands of panicked job-seekers stampeded during a government recruitment drive at Katoto Secondary School in Mzuzu as they pushed their way into the premises for interviews. The Ministry of Health is currently recruiting healthcare workers at Mzuzu Central Hospital. Applicants are expected to undergo interviews for the posts […]
Cross Roads Hotel in Lilongwe has become the first company in Malawi to retrench staff due to the raging coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Management has confirmed the rentrenchment of 20 staff. “We are not making enough money due to the Coronavirus, as we don’t have guests because of lockdown in most countries as well as the […]
There is an unspoken of evil labour practice that continues to consume the working spirit in most international companies operating in the country and some organisations with strong links to international interests, Nyasa Times has established. Qualified Malawians and others with more high-grade and internationally recognised skills and papers are left-out in preference to international […]
Mzuzu-based governance and human rights watchdog, Youth and Society (YAS), has commended the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for stopping the dubious recruitment of revenue and customs officers at Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) and called upon the tax collection body not to turn into a ‘camp-site’ for the governing Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP). MRA wanted to […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) recruitment process has been hated by the country’s graft-busting body Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) after a whistle-blower reported that jobs were being given suspiciously to some ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) operatives without formal interviews. Already, the public tax collector has a number of its staff appointed through similar dubious means. […]
Malawi tourism is currently under tight threat over coornavirus outbreak (Covid-19) as reports say over 35 000 people have lost their jobs due to closure of some hospitality businesses. On April 7, Malawi registered three more cases of Coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases to eight, with one death. The presence of Coronavirus […]
Department of Road Traffic and Safety Services has fired 62 non established ICT officers amid heightened speculation that they were conniving to manipulate data to steal money from the government. The officers were on Monday told to bring back their uniforms to the directorate before they were told to leave for good. But the director […]