Named structured vocation organizing (SCP), the guidebook intends to enhance the employee’s productiveness in the extended time period to optimise their benefit-insert to the small business.
Employers in Singapore can depend on Singapore Nationwide Businesses Federation (SNEF) and Ministry of Manpower (Mother)’s freshly-introduced structured job scheduling (SCP) guidebook, to employ a official structured career scheduling course of action to proactively interact more mature staff in their organisations on career and skills progress.
At the very same time, employers can use it to glimpse at current and potential capability specifications, when supporting the employee’s function, prosperity, and wellbeing targets.
For context, the guidebook was released in the course of a hybrid celebration on 13 July 2022 (Wednesday), graced by Dr Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of Point out for Manpower, Heng Chee How, Deputy Secretary-Basic, Nationwide Trades Union Congress (NTUC), and John Ng, Vice President, SNEF. At the celebration, it was outlined that the supposed outcome of SCP is to “improve the employee’s efficiency in the extended time period to optimise their benefit-include to the enterprise”.
What is SCP about?
In essence, SCP is packed with — entire and lite — implementation frameworks and toolkits (who, what, when, exactly where, how) that companies can utilise primarily based on manpower and resources offered. Outside of that, the guidebook also involves specific vocation assessment workouts, sample HR procedures, and situation scientific studies offered for reference.
Searching at the whole implementation framework, companies can anticipate to receive seven recommendations as follows:
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- Garner management invest in-in and guidance
- Implement the appropriate HR procedures for retirement and re-work
- Implement the relevant HR insurance policies for staff members progress
- Coach HR and Line Administrators for the SCP programme
- Communicate the intent of SCP firm-huge
- Perform the SCP programme, and
- On a regular basis appraise and boost on the SCP programme.







It is noteworthy that in level #2, companies are inspired by SNEF to have interaction employees and unions (if applicable) on re-work as early as achievable, at least 6 months prior to re-employment or extension of re-employment. On that be aware, the aforementioned seven tips should really then be evaluated towards 4 critical milestones (demonstrated under).
With regard to the lite edition, it encompasses 4 suggestions which are points #1, #4, #6, and #7 from the total model (described previously mentioned). The lite variation also has comparable milestones (proven beneath) – with the only big difference being in the initial domain (implementation period), ’55 decades old till retirement age’.
Why is SCP needed?
In SNEF’s statement, it shared that the Tripartite Workgroup on More mature Workers discovered that older employees are much more probable to seem to their employers to sign what training to undertake.
Many believed that businesses are in “a better place” to ascertain their expertise demand from customers as these kinds of, they really should guidebook more mature personnel on what schooling they will need for career advancement and re-work. On the other hand, some businesses may perhaps not have a systematic technique or do not know how to initiate to have significant profession discussions with their older workers.
DSG Heng, on that note, shared: “It is not unusual to listen to businesses fret about issue in acquiring the proper manpower. We also frequently hear older personnel get worried irrespective of whether they can go on operating as their organizations undertake huge and swift alterations in organization styles and technology. If we can’t address these properly, both equally firms and more mature staff will drop out. On the other hand, if we efficiently bring the demands jointly and proactively construction skills upgrades, position redesign, occupation development, and employee adaptation to prepare workers for new prerequisites even as they age, then we minimise displacement and maximise the prospective of our Singaporean workforce.”
He believes that SCP is “a deserving effort and hard work in this course”.
VP Ng also shared his sentiments on SCP. He spelled out that by setting up to system the subsequent section of the job of older workforce early, it would convey about numerous rewards for companies, particularly when careers and skill requirements are continuously altering due to digitalisation and business enterprise transformation.
He mentioned, for a single, older personnel would be much better ready to acquire on new or modified roles if they would like to be re-utilized. For a further, with an ageing workforce, VP Ng reckoned companies would be equipped to continue on to rely on their older workforce to satisfy their manpower desire to help business development. And on leading of that, businesses could cultivate a tradition of lifelong learning at the office by partaking staff regularly in occupation and skill growth.
“I strongly encourage employers to put into practice structured career setting up to assist their more mature workforce achieve effective longevity so that longevity of their workforce is successful for them much too,” VP Ng extra.
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