THE Department Labor and Employment (Dole) regional office will hold a two-day annual year-end assessment conference workshop of Public Employment Service Offices (Pesos) of the region.
Dole Regional Director Ponciano Ligutom said the meeting scheduled on December 3 and 4 will be held at the Grand Sibugay Plaza Hotel in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay.
With the theme "Employment Facilitation: Review and Perspectives," the two-day conference workshop focuses on the role of the Pesos as the implementing arms that links the local government and the National Government in their efforts towards employment facilitation.
Ligutom said Dole has developed and strengthened the Peso Managers' ability to address underemployment and unemployment challenges at the grassroots level throughout the years.
He said the conference workshop would also serve as venue for the review of their performance in 2008 and the formulation of an action plan for 2009, discuss and enhance techniques in employment facilitation process and re-introduce the institutionalization of Pesos throughout the region.
Ligutom said his office also gives its annual salute to Peso Managers who gave outstanding performances in the aspects of referral and placement, employment career and guidance counseling and labor market information.
The keynote speakers on employment facilitation are from Dole central office, he said. (Bong Garcia)
