Project Details


AI Repository Project

WSIS Prizes Contest 2021 Nominee

The Virtual Labor Market Platform


VLMP

Description

Following the fourth industrial revolution, MOHRE strategic plan for smart transformation and as part of the overall initiatives taken by UAE to limit the effects of the emerging coronavirus pandemic on the economy and labor market, MOHRE launched Virtual Labor Market Platform as pilot project in October 2019. It aims representing a channel for providing quality government services, attracting qualified people and protecting their rights and duties through a smart government platform that covers the shortcomings of private virtual sites that exploit the worker's need in the search for decent work, especially in cases of global crises and disasters.
An innovative platform to provide employment services to job seekers and companies used artificial intelligence, which facilitate the process of matching between job requirements published by companies and job seekers files to achieve the aims of connecting the two parties in an interactive way.
The virtual labor market platform aims to re-employ unemployed workers within the country, in order to support national efforts in maintaining public security in cases of worker strikes, and to serve the policy of job seekers, and to search for competencies in companies wishing to hire through a reliable federal government umbrella that takes into account.

Project website

https://careers.mohre.gov.ae


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-government
  • AL C7. E-employment 2021
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • UAE, United Arab Emirates

Status

Ongoing

Start date

01 October 2020

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • The unemployed
  • Migrants
  • Companies at UAE labor market

Sustainability

MOHRE tried to limit the challenges in achieving competitiveness for work opportunities internally between local and expatriate workers. Therefor; the Ministry studded the best recruitment platforms and expert houses, also link the platform with strategic and operational goals (cultural diversity-Abu Dhabi dialogue), and link the efforts of the ministry with the efforts of external bodies such as the Ministry of Interior to reduce stoppages, workers' strikes and stalled origin by registering these groups in the labor market electronically without fees, with the priority of employment for applications submitted in granting work permits to these groups through a smart platform with the expertise and jobs of those workers
In order to maintain sustainability; MOHRE designed policy and a certain methodology and apply the following
1.Providing a reliable government platform to search for a job opportunity for workers inside the country in the event that their contracts expire
2.Supporting the accurate and legal selection of workers, which helps the owners of companies to know the suitability of job seekers to the available vacancies without human intervention
3.Responding to government directives to achieve social distancing without compromising the stability of the labor market by receiving work permit applications, finding job seekers through a reliable platform and promoting employment in troubled enterprises
4.Enhancing flexibility in job supply and demand and enhancing the labor market in attracting talent, by linking the required work permit application service with vacancies and competencies
5.Activate the implementation of the ministerial decision to amend the conditions of affected workers by registering on the labor market platform in the event that establishments wish to dispense with surplus funds in the event of cancellation or search for an important work permit for some time until the crisis is over
6.Providing free registration authority during the crisis for affected workers in the labor market


WSIS values promotion

This project promote of WSIS values in UAE community through different aspects which include the following 1.Implement e-government strategies focusing on applications aimed at innovating and promoting transparency in public administrations and democratic processes, improving efficiency and strengthening relations with citizens 2.Develop national e-government initiatives and services, at all levels, adapted to the needs of citizens and business, to achieve a more efficient allocation of resources and public goods Therefor; MOHRE has developed a business model for business continuity during the outbreak of epidemics based on major steps that depend on the effectiveness and ability of the facility to continue vital activities in the event of business interruption or breakdown, including the following axes:(Leadership, Telework strategy, Distribution of human resources, Flexibility of procedures, Monitor and evaluate suppliers, Supply chain & Readiness),and set an operational plan to develop and launch the virtual labor market platform and the decisions and legislation necessary to activate the launch of the platform Establishments have been obligated to work in accordance with the decisions related to organizing the work relationship by consensus between the employer and the non-citizen-worker authorized to work in the facility, in order to preserve the interests of both parties during the period of applying precautionary measures.to reduce the spread of epidemics by; - Registering their data in the virtual labor market system in order to allow them to be rotated according to need by other establishments, provided that their commitment to these workers remains in place in terms of housing and fulfilling all their dues until they leave the country or are authorized to work in another facility - Updating the data of job seekers whose services have been terminated or employed in the Emiratization system


Entity name

Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization (MOHRE)

Entity country—type

United Arab Emirates Government

Entity website

https://www.mohre.gov.ae