CEBU CITY — President Rodrigo Duterte will be in Cebu on Tuesday to grace the 116th Labor Day celebration at the IC3 Convention Center here.
This was confirmed by Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Undersecretary Joel Manglungsod in a press conference for the 2018 Labor Day celebrations at the DOLE 7 (Central Visayas) office here Saturday.
Maglungsod said the President will have an important announcement to make during the Labor Day event, which will feature an overseas and local job fair with thousands of job openings up for grabs.
DOLE-7 Director Alvin Villamor said 41 local employers and 22 overseas employers and recruitment agencies are participating in the job fair.
The local job fair, to be spearheaded by the Cebu Provincial Public Employment Service Office, will offer 2,464 vacancies for Cebu jobseekers.
Local job openings are for customer service representatives, cashiers, sales clerks, drivers, kitchen staff, waiters, engineers, service crew, carpenters, masons, and technical support representatives, among many others.
Those who want to work overseas can apply for the 8,242 job openings being offered. Positions needed abroad include nurses, engineers, bellboys, cooks, service crew, receptionists, waiters/waitresses, room attendants, graphic designers, and restaurant workers.
Villamor said a local and international job fair will also be held simultaneously at the Negros Oriental Convention Center in Dumaguete City on May 1.
Other activities lined up for Labor Day include a “Trabaho, Negosyo at Kabuhayan” Fair in coordination with the Department of Trade and Industry, medical and dental mission, Operation “Tuli” (circumcision), free medical laboratory testing, health and wellness counseling, and free massage.
On possible protests and rallies on May 1, Villamor said, “It’s a free country. They (protesters) can rally all they want.”
Meanwhile, the Pag-Ibig Fund will also be raffling off three house-and-lot units for laborers on May 1.
Pag-Ibig Fund Visayas-Mindanao vice president, lawyer Marie Antoniette Diaz, said they have distributed 5,000 tickets among laborers nationwide for the raffle.
Diaz said one house and lot will be raffled off for Luzon in Baguio City, one for the Visayas here in Cebu, and the other for Mindanao in Zamboanga City.
She said the giving out of these house-and-lot prizes is Pag-Ibig’s way of helping not just DOLE’s program but the program of President Duterte.
Participants in the raffles need not be members of Pag-Ibig and winners will be given the option on where they want their houses built, Diaz added.
Diaz also announced that Pag-Ibig will be raffling off PHP1 million for its members on Labor Day. (PNA)
