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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''DTI intensifies bamboo production in Southern Leyte'''
'''DOLE 8 conducts orientation on security agencies, hiring companies'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=59224
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=59428
*Friday, October 14, 2011
*Sunday, October 16, 2011
:by  R.G. Cadavos
:by  Bong Pedalino




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte Oct 14 (PIA) -– In order to support and develop the bamboo production in the province of Southern Leyte, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) recently conducted basic skills training on Processed Bamboo Products under the project Sustainable Development of Southern Leyte Employees Multi –Purpose Cooperative- Bamboo (SLEMBOO).
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, October 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) through its provincial office here held an orientation on the basic rights and benefits of security guards.
Trade and Industry Development Specialist Sandra Alcober said Friday the SLEMBOO project of the Southern Leyte Employees Multi-Purpose Cooperative Inc. now focused on increasing the volume of production, improved quality of bamboo products, capacity development of human resources and increased, well-organized nodes.
The orientation was held at Casa Ampil on Saturday attended by security agencies in the city and province together with the business entities which hired such agencies, said Fe Norma Valuis, provincial Field Officer of DOLE.
“After the project’s implementation, for the last quarter of 2010, an increased awareness of bamboo products which resulted to its growing demand,” Alcober said, adding that there’s a need for an additional source of bamboo raw materials and workers in order to cope up with the said demands and will also serve as a buffer for future demands.
It was learned that when conflicts arise as to who will pay the benefits of the the security guards, the common situation was that both the agencies and the ones who hired them, were poiting at each other.
Alcober said the skills training conducted to the participants was aimed to open another outlet that will supply the bamboo raw materials and labor needs of SLEMBOO through imparting the skills on how to harvest bamboo products, cutting, cleaning, flattening and bamboo chips making.
But the law on sub-contracting provided that when a security agency fail to pay their obligations to their personnel, the principals are obliged to pay for whatever is due, said Valuis in a press conference at the DOLE provincial office with Regional Director Forter Poguon.
DTI-Southern Leyte headed by DTI Provincial Dir. Micahel Nuñez encouraged the prospect-producers to “sharpen their skills they learned from the training through continuous production.”
Valuis said many security guards came to her office seeking assistance on matters that should have been settled either by the agency concerned or both the agency and the principal.
The idea of barangay entrepreneurship is also a gesture of the local government of supporting the project through serving as a middleman such as in the allocation of funds for labor payment and the purchase of equipment and in turn selling the output of its people to SLEMBOO, the source said.
Based on the principle that ignorance of the law excuses no one, these principals should have been hailed to judicial processes sooner than later for whatever shortcomings committed or omitted on the agency-principal relationship.
The skills training targeted Barangay Libhu, this city in addition to the treatment plant in Barangay Sto. Niño in the municipality of Macrohon and the display center at Barangay Ibarra here, where different bamboo products can be seen such as luber, sheets furniture and designed chips, among other bamboo finished products. (rgc/PIA-SoLeyte)
But Valuis quoted Director Poguon as saying it would be better to educate them first on an orientation proceeding before applying the law so they will no longer have any alibi.
For his part, Poguon cited a very specific case that happened in the province several years ago involving some 25 security guards under a security agency who failed to pay the right amount of salaries.
Upon investigation, it was found out that the security personnel’s claim was right, and it was also determined that the principal failed to pay a sizeable fraction of the unpaid amount to the agency.
In the end, close to P 1 million pesos was duly paid both by the principal and the agency after a due process deliberation undertaken by DOLE 8, Pugoun said. (PIA-Southern Leyte/bong)


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