Facilitating Employers' Checks on Employees' Fulfillment of Training Requirements for Progressive Wage Model
Ministry of EducationSpeakers
Summary
This question concerns a proposal by Mr Mohd Fahmi Aliman to develop a training records gateway to help employers verify Progressive Wage Model requirements for workers who face difficulties accessing Singpass. Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing stated that workers currently use the MySkillsFuture portal for certificates, with training providers offering assistance to mature workers for downloading or printing records. He highlighted that employers can authenticate WSQ e-certificates via the Enterprise Portal for Jobs & Skills, and SSG will explore further ways to simplify this access. Beyond the existing "Skills Passport" for recording achievements, SSG intends to build a "journey planner" on MySkillsFuture to provide signposting for curated courses and career planning. These initiatives aim to make training and skills attainment records more accessible to help individuals and employers chart skills progression in tandem with career development.
Transcript
33 Mr Mohd Fahmi Aliman asked the Minister for Education in view of the difficulty faced by some mature and elderly workers under the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) in accessing their past training records using Singpass, whether there are plans to develop a training records gateway, such as an online portal, whereby companies’ HR personnel can electronically retrieve their employees’ training records that show their statement of attainment of WSQ modules to facilitate checks on whether the employees meet the training requirements of the various PWMs.
Mr Chan Chun Sing: Under the Progressive Wage Model (PWM), workers can move up along career pathways with wage-skill progression alongside productivity improvements. Most of the training courses for PWM come under the WSQ framework. Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents can log into their MySkillsFuture portal using Singpass to download their WSQ e-certificates. To assist our mature and elderly workers, SSG has also worked with all WSQ training providers to provide their trainees with assistance in downloading or printing their WSQ e-certificates.
Employers and HR personnel can also access and authenticate employees’ or job applicants’ WSQ e-certificates through the Enterprise Portal for Jobs & Skills. SSG will explore ways to further simplify and enhance employers’ access to their employees’ WSQ training records.
Beyond WSQ certifications, there is value in making records on training and skills attainment more easily accessible, so that individuals, together with their employers, can chart their skills progression, in tandem with their career development. Today, there is already a "Skills Passport" on the MySkillsFuture portal that records past achievements. SSG will build on the MySkillsFuture portal to develop a "journey planner" with signposting on curated courses from Institutes of Higher Learning and other training providers that informs individuals’ decisions on lifelong learning and career planning.