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| '''News Feature: DOLE supports P-Noy’s labor agenda with nationwide Jobs Fair on Labor Day''' | | '''Usec Quezon sits down with Ilocos Norte media''' |
| *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R01&article=331335776480 | | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R01&article=331336119565 |
| *By: Ma. Cristina C. Arzadon | | *By: Ma. Cristina C. Arzadon |
| *''Tuesday, May 01, 2012'' | | *''Sunday, May 06, 2012'' |
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| LAOAG CITY- Consistent with President Aquino’s Labor and Employment Agenda, the Labor Department in the Ilocos Region lines up today a Job and Livelihood Fair at the SM City in Rosales, Pangasinan where 8,000 job slots are up for grabs. | | LAOAG CITY- Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) Undersecretary Manuel Quezon III arrived in the province yesterday and sat down with the Ilocos Norte media for an hour of discussion dwelling on various areas. |
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| The jobs fair, which is happening simultaneous nationwide, showcases livelihood counseling, franchising opportunities, skills training, and livelihood skills demonstration. | | The topicss ranged from President Aquino’s economic agenda, the existence of supposed opposing blocs among Cabinet members, his relationship with the media, and more. |
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| The government has been marking Labor Day celebrations every year with job opportunities in partnership with the private sector as part of its mandate to close the gap in the country’s unemployed.
| | Quezon said his office has been touring around the country engaging the public and the media to amplify the President’s programs and the national government’s work agenda. |
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| This year’s Labor Day theme: “Pagtutulungan, Pagbabago, Disenteng Trabaho,” seeks to provide Filipinos local and overseas employment.
| | “I am here to answer any questions that you might have about how the President works, his leadership style, and how he has been stirring the country since he assumed the presidency,” he said. |
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| In Region I alone, some 75 employers gathered together offering various positions that include: Customer Service and Technical Support Representatives, Sales Promoters, Production and Finance Supervisors, Restaurant Supervisors and Managers, HR Assistants, Service Crew, Web Developers, Clerks, Accounting Staff, Systems Engineers, IT Personnel, Drivers, Cashiers, Credit Collectors, Office Secretaries, among others.
| | He said he chose to engage the media to a discussion as a feedback mechanism on whether or not government programs have made an impact on the public. |
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| President Aquino’s labor agenda is focused on investing in human resource to make it more competitive and employable while promoting industrial peace based on social justice. | | Quezon said the President has been working on obtaining the public’s trust in the government by doing his assignment before facing the media for any information that they might want to ask. |
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| On the other hand, the Department of Labor and Employment’s “Package of Reforms” has been crafted to give meaning and substance to the President’s policy agenda. It is anchored on the President’s social contract with the Filipino people and inspired by his vision of a transformed, just, and righteous Philippines.
| | “He doesn’t just read the news caps (news bullets) that we provide for him. He reads all papers making sure that he absorbs all the necessary data presented. He is good with data and numbers,” he said. |
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| At least 40 other Job Fairs are happening nationwide.
| | He said the President’s instructions to his communications team is to answer straightforward or beg off from answering if they are not prepared to support their answers. |
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| The venues of these Jobs and Livelihood Fair are as follows: (1) National Capital Region (NCR)-World Trade Center, Pasay City; (2) Cordillera Administrative Region-Baguio Convention Center; (3) Region 2-People’s Gymnasium, Tuguegarao (tentative); (4) Region 3-People’s Center, Balanga, Bataan; (5) Camp Servillano Aquino, Tarlac; (6) Rizal Triangle, Olongapo City; (7) Nueva Ecija Provincial Capitol, Cabanatuan City (tentative); (8) Region 4-B-Calapan City, Or. Mindoro; (9) Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro (tentative); (10) Region 7-Abellana National School, Cebu City; (11) Abellana Sports Complex, Cebu City; (12) Cebu International Convention Center; (13) Tagbilaran City, Bohol; (14) Panfil B. Frasco Sports Complex-Kai Gym, Liloan, Cebu; (15) BQ Mall, Tagbilaran City, Bohol; (16) Municipal Hall, Balamban, Cebu; (17) University of San Carlos South Compound, Cebu City; (18) Region 8-Tacloban City Convention Center, Tacloban City; (19) Region 9-Pagadian City; (20) Western Mindanao State University Gymnasium, Zamboanga City; (21) Region 11-Abreeza Mall; (22) Gaisano Mall, Davao City; and (23) Region 12-KCC Mall, Gen. Santos City; (24) North Cotabato Field Office; (25) Sultan Kudarat Field Office; (26) Cotabato City Field Office; (27) Grand Gaisano's South Cotabato Field Office; (28) SARGEN Field Office; and (29) CARAGA-AMA Computer Learning Center, Butuan City.
| | “He told us not to pretend to know the answer if we don’t,” he added. |
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| The rest of the DOLE regional offices, namely Regions CAR, 1, 4-A, 5, 6, 10, and 11 will hold their Job and Livelihood Fairs in 24 SM branches in Baguio City; Rosales, Pangasinan; Marilao and Baliwag, Bulacan; San Fernando and Angeles City, Pampanga; Tarlac City; Rosario, Molino, Dasmarinas, and Bacoor City, Cavite; Sta. Rosa City, Calamba City, and San Pablo City, Laguna; Lipa City and Batangas City, Batangas; Taytay and Antipolo City, Rizal; Lucena City, Quezon; Naga City, Iloilo City, Bacolod City, Cagayan de Oro City, and Davao City.
| | He said the Planning Office is currently working on codifying the laws, issuances, and executive orders that each President of the Philippines had decreed during their terms. |
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| Other DOLE Regional Job and Livelihood Fairs are taking place in four Robinson’s Place branches in Imus City, Cavite; Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental; Tacloban City; and General Santos City.
| | “The President wants a complete inventory of all the documents of all the presidents who had served. This is one way of ensuring good governance,” Quezon said. |
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| | Quezon also made clear how the Presidential Communications Group, composed of the Presidential Spokesman, the Presidential Communications and Operations Office (PCOO), and the PCDSPO, work separately on their mandates of delivering the President’s message to the public. |
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| ==Ilocos Norte Zip Codes== | | ==Ilocos Norte Zip Codes== |