More jobs for Capiceños assured
ROXAS CITY -- More Capiceños are assured to avail jobs and employment opportunities this year.
Supervising Labor Employment Officer Conrado Bancaya of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Capiz disclosed that Capiceños will also avail of the emergency employment from the government's program.
Bancaya said that under the DOLE's Tulong Panghanapbuhay Para sa Ating Disadvatage workers (TUPAD), a total of 150 Capiceños will be given emergency employment by the government.
He stressed that said workers will come from the towns of Jamindan, Tapaz and Maayon with 50 workers per municipality.
Bancaya revealed that the 150 workers will be assigned to undertake road maintenance activities, particularly in the barangay and municipal roads, for 22 days.
He pointed out that the implementation of the DOLE's TUPAD program, which is part of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP), is in close coordination with the concerned local government units.
Earlier, President Arroyo assured has assured the availability of jobs and employment opportunities for poor and underprivileged Filipinos in the face of the global economic slowdown with the allotment of an additional P1 billion to finance its emergency employment program this year.
Secretary Domingo Panganiban of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) disclosed that the President is closely monitoring the progress of the CLEEP and she has instructed all agencies to utilize all available funding for the program.
Panganiban said that the additional P1-billion investment for the Arroyo government's emergency jobs program will be sourced from the 2009 appropriations of agencies such as the DOLE, the 2008 savings of various national agencies, and counterpart funding from local government units.
The jobs created under the CLEEP include infrastructure maintenance, rehabilitation of hospital facilities, micro-enterprise development as well as job opportunities in environmental protection, he said.
He added that the latest infusion of cash into the CLEEP raises the government's current and actual investments into the program from P9 billion to nearly P10 billion. (PIA)