The Department of Labor and Employment in Western Visayas is eyeing a partnership with the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and the province of Negros Occidental to address the 2,000 vacancies for business processing outsourcing companies, in Bacolod City, OIC-DOLE regional director Crispin Dannug Jr., said yesterday.
Dannug said they need to assist students to get jobs and they can do this by providing pre-employment training in language and diction courses.
There is a great demand for call center jobs and that DOLE has started meeting call center managers on how to fill the vacancies, he said. They want to hire those who really meet the standards and qualifications of the companies, Dannug said.
‘No split in TUCP’
Alex Villaviza, TUCP vice president said there is no split in the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, but that it is “only the two sons of resigned president Democrito ‘Kito’ Mendoza trying to forcibly and illegally wrest control of what they perversely regard as their dynastic inheritance,” a press release said yesterday.
Villaviza also said, “The sons Raymond and Michael (Mendoza) have illusions of entitlement -- that TUCP is like a chunk of family property that they can rightfully acquire by inheritance from their father.”
Villaviza, a former member of Congress representing the labor sector, said in the press release that TUCP is not a family-owned corporation, and not a piece of private real estate that the father can bequeath to his sons but a democratic center of various free labor federations.
Sugarcane rebounds
Sugarcane rose from the doldrums and outperformed other Philippine crops in 2011, registering that year four successive quarters of production increases highlighted by triple-digit growth rates during the April-June and July-September periods.
Data released by the Department of Agriculture this week show the country's 2011 sugarcane production volume totaled nearly 28.40 million metric tons - 58.27 percent higher than the 17.93 million MTs this crop posted in 2010.
In 2010, nationwide sugarcane production dipped 21.82 percent below its 2009 level of 22.93 million MTs.