Workplace training and workplace innovation are merging areas. Training is as important for growing industries as to those that are in decline. In the latter case, retraining is a vital part of employee adjustment programs, necessary for the development of new skills to meet new challenges. Training, innovation and workplace adjustment are areas where government can play a key role as facilitator. So too can joint committees of labour and management.
Government already promotes sectoral councils and other tri-partite institutions.
Labour and management clearly have a common interest in responding to the needs and opportunities created by change.