PESO NegOr boosts local, overseas employment

THE Public Employment Service Office (PESO) of Negros Oriental deployed over a thousand of workers for local employment, including last week’s special recruitment for Cebu.

In its first anniversary, the PESO under the “Magdegamo Equals Trabaho” program of the provincial government, focal person Jose Ramon Benedicto said his office also facilitated 248 Negrenses who are now working in Riyadh, Jeddah, Qatar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Hongkong.

Benedicto said of the 1,234 applicants were deployed outside the province, 981 were deployed to Cebu Mitsumi; 89 to Robinsons-Dumaguete; and four to Island Merchants Corp. “We will continue to hold job fairs along with referral employment service and assist recruitment processes for employers to provide perfect match of employment opportunities for the Negrense,” Benedicto added.