DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (Video screengrab from Zoom meeting)
“Mayroon kaming 44,000 na trabaho na available (We have 44,000 jobs available),” Bello said in a virtual press briefing on Wednesday, April 28.
He was promoting DOLE’s online job fair, which will be held on Saturday, May 1 on the occasion of Labor Day.
“Noong lunes lang 28,000, ngayon 44,000 na. Baka pagdating ng May 1 aabot na ng 50,000 (Last Monday we had 28,000 vacancies, now we have 44,000. Maybe we will reach 50,000 by May 1),” he said.
“Ganun kaganda ang prospect ng ating employment and we thank and appreciate yung ating mga businessmen, yung mga nagnenegosyo, na kahit papano ay inaalagaan nila ang ating mga manggagawa (That’s how good our employment prospects are and we thank and appreciate our businessmen for taking care of our laborers somehow),” Bello said.