Job vacancies await OFWs, unemployed

SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga — Department of Labor and Employment Region 3, regional director Leopoldo B. De Jesus said Thursday over 6,000 local job opportunities await overseas Filipino workers repatriated from Libya and other jobseekers in Central Luzon.

According to De Jesus the Embassy of the United States of America, through its partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Labor and Employment, will be holding a three-day outreach program on March 18-20.

Dubbed “America in 3-D,” the outreach program will be held at the SM North EDSA Mall wherein one of the highlights of the event is the holding of job fair to fill over 6,000 local job vacancies in 33 American companies from various industrial sectors.

“We would like to encourage our jobseekers from Central Luzon, especially those repatriated OFWs from Libya who hail from this region to participate in the said outreach-cum-job fair program of the U.S. Embassy. There is light at the other side of the tunnel” De Jesus said.

Meanwhile, Pampanga Gov. Lilia “Nanay Baby” however, instructed the office of Provincial Labor and Employment in the province to give priority all OFW’s repatriated from Libya.

The governor also immediately release the P10,000 cash assistance to the Capampangan OFW’s and given them priority jobs opportunities.-- FGR