An electronics company based in Cebu will hire 4,000 trainees from Negros Oriental, Jose Ramon Benedicto of the Public Employment Services Office said yesterday in a government press release.

He said PESO has deployed around 300 workers for Cebu Mitsumi, a Japanese electronics manufacturing firm. The workers who were from the towns of Pamplona, Mabinay, Tayasan and Siaton in Negros Oriental, were hired as electronics assemblers with a job contract of three years, and a monthly allowance of P8,000, plus overtime pay, Benedicto said in the press release.

After three years, the workers will be eligible for the NCII competency certificate as electronics assemblers from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority that will enable them to work abroad like in Taiwan or Malaysia.

Benedicto said PESO is confident of meeting the members of employees needed by Cebu Mitsumi. There are many applicants in the province, he added.

At the pre-deployment briefing yesterday for 85 applicants from Pamplona, the workers were urged to work hard and do their jobs well, the press release added.*

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