Amended Skills Development Act

(1)           Subject to the laws governing the public service, the Director-General must –

(a) establish labour centres in the Department; and

(b) appoint such number of persons in the public service at each centre as is necessary to perform the functions of that centre.

(2)           The functions of those labour centres are –

(a) to provide employment services for workers, employers and training providers, including improvement of such services to rural communities;

(b) to register work-seekers;

(c)  to register vacancies and work opportunities;

(d) to assist prescribed categories of persons--

(i)         to enter special education and training programmes;

(ii)        to find employment;

(iii)      to start income-generating projects; and

(iv)      to participate in special employment programmes; and

(e) to perform any other prescribed function related to the functions referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d).

(3)           The Minister may, after consulting the National Skills Authority, by notice in the Gazette, require each employer to notify a labour centre in the prescribed manner of –

(a) any vacancy that employer has; and

(b) the employment of any work-seeker referred by that labour centre.