Zambales, DOLE ink MOA for PESO institutionalization
IBA, Zambales, — Zambales is the first province in the country to have all its Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs) institutionalized after the provincial government and 11 of its 13 towns inked a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
“We now have institutionalized PESOs in the municipalities of Castillejos, San Marcelino, San Antonio, San Narciso, San Felipe, Cabangan, Palauig, Masinloc, Candelaria, Subic, and Botolan,” said Labor Regional Director Raymundo Agravante.
In a message, Vice Governor and Provincial PESO Manager Ramon Lacbain II lauded the local chief executives and sanggunians for passing their respective ordinances creating a permanent PESO in their areas. “To reward your endeavor for institutionalizing your PESOs, the provincial government this year provided P100,000 for each municipality to be used for their full operation,” said Lacbain.
The vice governor said that for 2013, each institutionalized PESO will be allotted with a budget of P200,000 provided they will have a counterpart fund.
For his part, Governor Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. thanked DOLE for cascading employment and livelihood programs to uplift the lives of residents of Zambales.
The milestone MOA signing served as the highlight of provincial government’s PESO Panalo Day anchored on the theme “Trabaho at Kabuhayan Laban sa Kahirapan.” (WLB/CLJD-PIA 3)
