DOLE conducts
Caravan
at Camiguin Lanzones Festival
by: Mildred E. Dablio, Labor Communications Officer
Cagayan de
Oro City - The Department of Labor and Employment through its Camiguin
Provincial Field Office via Officer-In-Charge Errol Natividad will facilitate
government caravan on 24-26 October 2012 in line with festivities for the
lanzones celebration.
In synchronization, the DOLE Regional Coordinating Committee (RCC)
composed of its attached agencies in region joined the One-Stop-Shop of
government services through the DOLE Caravan in Mambajao on 25-26 October at
the UGMAD Site, Tourism Center, Mambajao, Camiguin. This a Provincial
Government initiative of Governor Jurdin Jesus “Jj” M. Romualdo. Invited
participants are the Mayors and Public Employment Service Officers (PESO) of
its 5 Municipalities of Mambajao, Catarman, Sagay, Guinsiliban, and Mahinog and
other workers and would-be entrants of the workforce.
Lanzones is a major fruit crop in the Philippines and the whole of
Asia. In Northern Mindanao, Camiguin is reputed to produce the sweetest
lanzones fruits. In turn the Province always pays tribute by holding the annual
Lanzones Festival participated in by the local and foreign tourists. The
prevailing good climate, soil of volcanic origin and other biotic factors are
believed to favor the growth, yield, and taste of the fruit. CY 2012 festivities
started 20th until the 28th October.
DOLE launched the Skills Registry System (SRS) for the Local Government
Unit of Mahinog on 24 October 2012. SRS is a revised version of the National
Manpower Registry System and a Labor Market Information (LMI) tool in pilot
Local Government Units (LGU).
Mahinog Mayor, Alex R. Jajalla received one (1) set of desktop computer
and printer for this purpose.
Mahinog is the 5th municipality of Camiguin composed of 13 barangays.
In terms of communications technology, the area is already equipped with its
own Camiguin Telephone Cooperative (CAMTECO) as its main internet provider,
making the SRS program feasible for a reliable and updated registry of skills
of the municipality and also for the entire province.
The said program requires the Public Employment Service Office (PESO)
in said LGUs to get the total list of skills and job vacancies suitable in the
locality in the SRS form to capture the skills data from the registrants.
The accomplished form will then be encoded in the desktop computer with
the embedded SRS program. The computers were sourced by DOLE and given without
cost to the said LGUs. The data will then be accessed by the national
government to assist in job-fit formulation and as a ready source of manpower
of investors.
The Caravan will highlight the DOLE programs on Single ENtry Approach
or SENA which is a conciliation-mediation approach of settling labor issues
between management or vice versa; receiving of applications for the DOLE
Special Program for the Employment of Students or SPES and the Alien Employment
Program ; registration of Rural Workers’ Association (RWAs); assistance on
availing the Youth Entrepreneurship Program, DOLE Integrated Livelihood
Program; advocacy on Labor Standards and construction safety.
RCC programs and services featured in the said Caravan is the Overseas
Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) through their assistance to the OFWs and
their dependents on applications for death, disability, and dismemberment
benefits; education and training program; repatriation services; family welfare
and reintegration program; and welfare assistance.
Joining the team is Technical Education Skills and Development
Administration (TESDA)’s advocacy on their offered vocation courses for
enrollment.
Meanwhile the National Reintegration Center for OFWs or NRCO through
the OWWA and the DOLE will be releasing livelihood assistance to some 18 OFW
returnees of Catarman and Sagay municipalities from Hong Kong, Singapore,
Lebanon, Kuwait, KSA, UAE, and Taiwan.
The NRCO share worth PhP 10,000 each will be awarded to the said
beneficiaries as a start-up or additional capital for individual livelihood
projects or as establishment, restoration, and enhancement of their businesses
on:
• sari-sari
store:5 beneficiaries
• hog
raising: 7
• native
snack preparation:1
• garment
making:1
• buy and
sell (beauty products):1
• vulcanizing
shop:1
• fish
trading:1
• fast food:1
Joining forces, the LGU Mambajao through Mayor Ma. Luisa D. Romualdo
also sponsored a Job Fair for applicants agreeing to join the workforce on 25
October 2012 also at the UGMAD Camiguin Tourism Center.
DOLE Regional Office No. 10 Director, Atty. Johnson G. Cañete, welcomed
the invitation from the Province as support towards President Aquino III’s
directive on labor and employment’s overarching goal of investing in our human
resource to be more competitive and employable while promoting industrial peace
based on social justice.
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The CAGAYAN DE ORO TIMES
VOL1 No13 November 4-10, 2012
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