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Reported by Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

The Bohol Employment and Placement Office (BEPO) have sought the assistance of Hanjin Heavy Industries regarding complaints of some 100 Boholano skilled workers employed at the company's Subic shipyard.

BEPO head Romulo Tagaan made the inquiry into the situation of the workers after the Chronicle reported the sub-standard working conditions and low pay.

In a letter to Hanjin Shipyard training manager Chan Yong Park, Tagaan expressed dismay in the light of complaints from Boholano workers specifically on poor living quarters and the quality of food which is allegedly "below what is acceptable."

Text messages concerning the plight of the workers were first received through Station dyRD days after 152 skilled welders, machine shop operators and electricians were deployed to Subic.

They were recruited by Hanjin through BEPO in December last year and sent to Subic last January 27.

Relatives of some workers in Subic likewise relayed their sad plight and plan to walk out from their work and return home. The Hanjin shipyard is one of the country's biggest dry docks.

According to one recruit who contacted the Chronicle, the 120 welders were not informed by BEPO during their recruitment that deductions on their P150 daily allowance would amount to about P130, which leaves them only P20.

However, Tagaan said in his letter to Chan Yong Park that during the screening process, where the Hanjin recruitment representative gave an orientation on the general conditions of the training, "the most basic concerns of food, accommodation, transportation, among others" were discussed.

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