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MÜSİAD declares support for PM’s employment campaign call
Around 600 TOBB members convened in Ankara on Thursday to discuss the prime minister’s request and to vote on a course of action. The voting ended with 94 percent of the businessmen unwilling to make such a move.
However, MÜSİAD announced it would shoulder the burden for helping to solve the unemployment problem. Similarly, the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON) has also announced it would support the prime minister’s idea.
Speaking to Today’s Zaman on the country’s agenda, MÜSİAD President Ömer Cihad Vardan said he sent a note to the members of the association asking them to employ at least one more worker if they are financially able to do so. He noted that one of the members of his association is planning this year to invest $1 billion and employ 2,000 new workers.
Vardan stated that many industrialists are searching for skilled workers who already have expertise in certain jobs. For this reason, he noted, the measures to encourage vocational training at the high-school level must be increased.
The MÜSİAD head also didn’t hesitate to lend his support to the government’s recently announced stimulus plan for craftsmen and artisans on the grounds that this package would significantly help the country’s small companies.
Vardan also mentioned the unregistered economy as one of the biggest burdens on the economy and criticized it, saying: “This means seizing others’ rights unfairly. This is an ethical problem, and we must work to end it.”
Banks must be more active in post-crisis era
Recalling Turkey’s ambitious target to become one of the top 10 largest economies of the world, Vardan said a common and concerted effort with the participation of all segments of society is required.
Blaming the financial sector for failing to back producers sufficiently during the hard times of the global economic crisis, Vardan called on the banks to be more involved in the economy in the next period.
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