The Department of Labor and Employment-6 recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with  the Contractors Network of Negros Occidental, Construction Industry Tripartite Council and Region-6 Human Resources Network to ensure jobs for   graduates of the Sugar Workers Development Center training program.

The MOU is part of the strategic action of Region 6 to provide the graduates of the SWDC Self and Wage Employment-based trainings access to employment opportunities, a press release from DOLE 6 said yesterday.

DOLE Region 6 Director Ponciano Ligutom said the regional office wants to ensure that the graduates will be able to apply what they learned after the training by getting employed through the help of our partners.

He also said the DOLE prioritizes the sugar workers and their dependents because they are the ones who really need help due to their relatively low income, which contributes to high incidence of child labor in the sugar industry.

The SWDC Training Program has three components: social infrastructure, self employment and wage employment, the press release said.

Ligutom said he hopes the MOU with the intermediaries will accelerate the employment rate of the graduates of the SWDC training program.*

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