DAPITAN
CITY - A total of 473 students from this city’s fifty barangays
are going to benefit this summer from
the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) jointly implemented
by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the city government led by
Mayor Agapito Cardino.
Public
Employment Service Officer (PESO) Floro Empeynado said the program
beneficiaries will work in three (3) batches for a period of 20 days.
The
first batch of 173 students already reported to work last April 1, while the
second batch of 160 students and the third
batch of 130 started working on April 8.
SPES
beneficiaries from barangays near the city proper are assigned to work at the
City’s Engineering Office (CEO) and those residing in the rural areas are
directed to work right in their respective barangays.
Under
the SPES program, the local government unit (LGU) shall shoulder 60 percent of
the students’ salaries while the remaining 40% will be shouldered by the DOLE.