The Department of Employment Relations will soon be visiting businesses to conduct the third-annual Occupational Wage Survey.
Beginning Monday, the survey will target some 300 businesses to collect data on wages, salaries and benefits by occupation across different sectors for the reference month of September, states a GIS press release.
This annual survey is a continuing initiative by the DER to improve the availability of quality labour market information for the Cayman Islands.
‘It is important that Cayman generates reliable and internationally-comparable labour market Information, which can be useful for decision-making by government, employers and employee agencies,’ says Director of Employment Relations Walling Whittaker.
‘It should also help my department’s efforts to inform young Caymanians of their options when making career choices,’ he said.
The DER’s Deputy Director Philip Scott notes that since that last year’s annual survey was disrupted by Hurricane Ivan, some businesses may have to be revisited.
‘We understand that many owners and managers may consider the exercise to be time-consuming,’ said Mr. Scott. ‘However we hope that employers will once again work with our research officers as they gather relevant, useful empirical data for use by the business community and other decision-makers.’
Earlier this year the results of the first Occupational Wage Survey in 2003 were presented to the Cayman Islands Society for Human Resource Professionals, as many of their respective businesses had participated in that survey.
The presentation also served to demonstrate how the data could be useful to them.
‘Many of our members found the information to be extremely useful in a number of areas, including planning and ascertaining our relative competitiveness,’ said Society President, Samantha Bennett.
‘We definitely recommend that business organisations participate in the survey, as this will result in a good reference publication.’
The Occupational Wage Survey is a component of the Caribbean Labour Market Information System, which is a project supported by the International Labour Organization and the U.S. Department of Labour through training and project development. The system is an effort to build and enhance capacity for the production and use of labour market information within the English-speaking Caribbean and Suriname.
For further information on the Occupational Wage Survey, contact Mr. Philip Scott at 945-3114, or e-mail: [email protected]
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