883 placed in local & foreign jobs as of May 2005
by R. Nessia
Dumaguete City (30 June 2005) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here reported that around 883 applicants from Negros Oriental have been placed in local and overseas jobs as of May 2005.
Of the total, 693 are for local jobs (including deep-sea fishing), the bulk of which are for domestic jobs in Manila, says Kenric Villaluz of the local DOLE.
Villaluz said there were 190 applicants who qualified for overseas jobs, mostly as domestic helpers in Singapore, Hongkong and Taiwan.
The number of Filipinos working abroad grew 3% to 422, 801 as of May on continued demand in overseas markets, the Labor department said.
According to DOLE office in Manila, more than 500,000 Filipinos had been placed in local and overseas jobs as of May 29, 2005, as it denied reports that the government's job generation program had only managed to produce 87,000 jobs almost halfway through 2005. (PIA)
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