CEBU CITY — More than 300 landslide victims in the City of Naga, Cebu have begun working under the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) Emergency Employment Program (EEP).
DOLE 7 (Central Visayas) Director, lawyer Johnson Cañete, said Thursday EEP beneficiaries started working last Oct. 8 “with the General Services Office primarily directing their day-to-day tasks and activities.”
Each EEP beneficiary will be paid PHP386 per day for the one-month duration of their emergency employment. Workers are also given one day off a week, he said.
Cañete said DOLE-7 and the city’s Public Employment Service Office (PESO) have profiled a total of 357 workers among the affected individuals and families, who are sheltered in various evacuation centers.
Most of the workers profiled are from Barangays Tinaan and Naalad, where the massive landslide occurred early morning of Sept. 20, claiming the lives of 78 individuals, including children. Six persons are still missing up to this day.
The internally-displaced individuals, numbering 6,636 and 1,628 families, are spread throughout 11 evacuation centers at the Naga Central Elementary School, Enan Chiong Activity Center, Naalad Elementary School, APO Cemex Covered Court, Naga National High School, Colon Elementary School, Cepoc Elementary School, San Fernando Covered Court, Langtad Elementary School, Mormons Church, and Cabungahan Covered Court.
The EEP or “Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged Workers (TUPAD)” is one of the two components of the DOLE Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Programs. (Luel Galarpe/PNA)
