Yazaki EDS Samoa which is set to close at the end of 2017, has offered its 750 employees Transitional Support Packages to prepare them for future careers.
Talamua Online reports that Yazaki Samoa General Manager Funefe’ai Oliva Va’ai confirmed this during a presentation at a meeting the Samoa Association Manufacturers & Exporters (SAME).
The initiative according to Funefe’ai is to give something back to the people that have built the company in the past 25 years.
Funefeai said every employee at Yazaki has a package that will include an acknowledgement letter from the company’s President in Japan, and an encouragement for them to stay on until the company closes.”
The company is offering information on different courses and training programs the employees can choose to undertake.
Yazaki is to offer courses at the company factory, and other training would be offered at the Australian Pacific Technical College (APTC), the National University of Samoa (NUS) and the University of the South Pacific (USP).
The company surveyed the interest and skills of employees to determine how best to assist in their future career paths.
Choices include Samoan printing, sewing, organic farming and vegetable gardening.
Yazaki is approaching the Samoa Association of Manufacturers and Exporters for training opportunities in sewing which was the number one choice of the employees.
