Dubai Civil Aviation (DCA) today (Tuesday, November 23, 2005) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Human Resources Development and Employment Authority (Tanmia), for employing 1,060 UAE Nationals registered with Tanmia. The MoU also aims at enhancing mutual cooperation and creating more employment opportunities for UAE Nationals at DCA.
The MoU was signed by Ayesh Al Barghouti, Director, Employment and Skills Development Center, Tanmia, and Thani Binjarsh, Director of Human Resources, Dubai Civil Aviation at Dubai International Airport.
Commenting on the MoU, Al Barghouti said, “Tackling the problem of unemployment among UAE Nationals is crucial to ensure the all round progress of the country in the medium and long term. Tanmia has been tasked with finding the right employment opportunities for UAE National job seekers in the private and government sectors. However, without the full commitment of companies within both sectors, to provide job opportunities for Nationals, little can be achieved.”
“The Emiratisation drive in the country received a boost in recent months, with an increasing number of decision makers realizing the role they can play in taking this initiative further. We are glad that DCA has committed to significantly increase the number of Nationals employed within the organisation,” he added.
Following the MoU, DCA will hire 1000 Nationals as Security Screeners and 60 Nationals to work within the Customer Service Support Department. Tanmia will liaise with Dubai Civil Aviation to identify its job requirements and agree on detailed specifications for the job openings, including job title, educational level and gender.
“We fully support Tanmia’s mission to identify job opportunities for UAE Nationals and we are strongly committed to raising the number of Nationals working in DCA. This agreement will help us leverage Tanmia’s recourses and training solutions to recruit the right people for the available vacancies at DCA,” said Binjarsh said.
“We believe there are several areas in which DCA and Tanmia could work together. This MoU represents the start of a fruitful and rewarding collaboration that will not only ensure increased employment of Nationals within DCA but also enhance support to Tanmia’s initiatives,” added Binjarsh.
Tanmia will be responsible for nominating a selection of candidates from which DCA will select the most suitable ones to undergo a training programme consisting of classroom and on-the-job training to meet skill and competency gaps of the chosen candidates. Tanmia and DCA will then choose an institution to provide training to the selected Nationals, who will join DCA upon successful completion of the training programme.
About Tanmia
Tanmia, the National Human Resource Development & Employment Authority in the UAE, was established by a Presidential decree in November 1999, to address the imbalance in the labour market, due to excessive dependence on expatriate workforce. Tanmia is engaged in a coordinating role, between national job seekers and employers in the private and government sectors, to facilitate increased entry of nationals in the labour market. The responsibilities that rest with the Authority are: to set up the overall policy of the Authority and supervise its implementation, conduct sustained operational and administrative labour market studies and analysis, provide career counseling and guidance to the national work force, follow-up and evaluate employment of nationals in public and private sectors, support small investment enterprises through the establishment of self-employment projects for national human resources and develop programmes for training and qualifying nationals seeking employment, in conformity with the labour market needs.
