ANA reports that the PG Group on Monday said it was adding a further 120 young graduates to its workforce in a bid to create job opportunities across all its business divisions in collaboration with the Youth Employment Service (YES).
The glass manufacturer and supplier said it was heeding President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call to create new work opportunities for the country’s vast number of unemployed youth. The YES initiative was launched by Ramaphosa in March 2018, as a joint initiative between government, business, labour and civil society to collectively advance a national plan to build economic pathways for the youth. Charles Bromley, chief executive of the PG Group, said the group’s YES journey began in October 2018 with an initial intake of 120 youth who commenced their experiential workplace programmes. Bromley indicated that a national recruitment drive for the second intake of 120 youth was currently underway. Dr Tashmia Ismail-Saville, chief executive of YES, observed: “We are already entering a dynamic new phase of YES where we see businesses beginning to engage their second-year cohorts and we look forward to an exciting future.”
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