CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — A total of 1,031 young workers in Central Luzon were given an opportunity to work in various government agencies within the region in 2017 through the Department of Labor and Employment’s Government Internship Program (DOLE-GIP).
DOLE Regional Director Ana Dione on Wednesday said the DOLE-GIP intern-beneficiaries worked for three to six months in its partner government agencies performing various tasks such as profiling, encoding, assisting, and other functions not highly technical in nature.
“Our young interns were given opportunity to demonstrate their talents and skills in the field of public service while the DOLE’s part was to identify the best and the brightest among them who want to further pursue a career in government service, particularly in the field and discipline of labor and employment,” Dione said.
Of the total number of intern-beneficiaries, she said 112 were initially re-hired as job order workers after their DOLE-GIP stint at the government agencies that they were assigned to.
“The DOLE-GIP is a good stepping stone for our intern-beneficiaries to learn and experience the real world of government work with the fulfillment of serving our fellow Filipinos with our various basic government services,” she said.
Dione said that DOLE Central Luzon allotted some PHP30.08 million last year for the salaries of intern-beneficiaries and each of them received 75 percent of the region’s prevailing minimum daily wage.
The intern-beneficiaries were at least 18 to 30 years old, high school or technical-vocational graduates, and with no work experience, to qualify and join the internship program.
It could be recalled that a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was forged between the DOLE and its GIP partner agencies covering the terms and conditions relative to the implementation of the program.
Partner agencies include the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority; Department of Science and Technology; Department of Agriculture; Department of Social Welfare and Development; Department of Education; Land Bank of the Philippines; Philippine Statistics Authority; Bureau of Fire Protection; local government units, and state colleges and universities.
Aside from its partner agencies, all seven DOLE field offices, including its satellite offices in the Freeport Area of Bataan and Clark Freeport Zone, also participated in the DOLE-GIP implementation. (Zorayda Tecson/PNA)
