An independent assessment of the policies of the Employment & Training Corporation

Abstract

As the public employment service in Malta, the Employment & Training Corporation (henceforth ETC) finds itself intersecting with the lives of two main stakeholders at different times in the evolution and life course of either their business or career history. On one hand, employers touch base with the ETC to communicate job vacancies, source trainees, announce potential redundancies, apply for training refunds, connect with potential recruits, and offer on-the-job training to individuals who might then become their employees. On other hand, members of the labour force refer to the ETC to register as unemployed, look for suitable training and retraining or skill redeployment programs, be identified in relation to job vacancies, and be selected for on-the-job training or apprenticeship opportunities. Of course, the ETC does more than that: it is also a depository of national labour market data, the administrator of various ESF- supported projects, and the coordinator of various training programs.