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00:00The Department of Labor and Employment is ready to get rid of the thousands of POGO employees who will lose their jobs because of the POGO ban.
00:07Let's ask Secretary Bienvenido La Guesma about the clear plan of the DOLE.
00:12Good morning and welcome to Balitang Hali, sir.
00:17Good morning, Connie, and good morning to your televiewers and supporters.
00:22Secretary, just to be clear, because the figures are different, how many POGO employees will be affected by the ban?
00:32Some are saying 20,000, some 30,000, some 40,000. What are your figures?
00:40Connie, actually, that's the reason why we had a meeting initially of the PAN-CORP yesterday with Chairman Altenco.
00:49We want to reconcile the numbers that we received and we are asking the question, what is it really?
00:59Based on our meeting yesterday, we will have a validation meeting subsequently,
01:06which will be led by our Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary Paul Anover and the regional director of our NCR.
01:14We will validate the numbers and based on what we talked about yesterday,
01:20their figure is around 40,000 because it is recorded.
01:25We know that the list of those involved in this kind of activity is the PAN-CORP that gave the license.
01:35The companies that are on the PAN-CORP list, we will validate the employees because we want to profile them
01:47so that we can have a strong intervention or assistance to the workers who might be affected by the closure of the operation of POGO,
02:00the former POGO which is now IGL, their licenses.
02:04All right. Just to clarify Secretary, we will give assistance and we will transfer it to other industries that are purely Filipino citizens only?
02:15Yes. That's our mandate in the Department of Labor and Employment.
02:19We will pay attention to those who are directly employed.
02:24But we also know that there are those who are indirectly employed,
02:29those who are related to jobs that might be affected if the IGLs are completely closed.
02:37Okay. Are there industries that you are looking to transfer to our POGO workers?
02:43Do you have contacts for those companies?
02:47There are already, initially Connie, especially in IT, business process in the management sector.
02:54Because in the initial results of profiling of our National Capital Region, we saw that a large part of them are importers.
03:04That means they have knowledge in technology.
03:07So if there is a need to add to the work that is being done,
03:13that is part of the interventions that the Department of Labor and Employment can carry out,
03:18which is led by PESTA.
03:20Thank you very much for your time on Balitang Hali, Secretary.
03:25Thank you very much, Connie. Long live your program.
03:28Thank you. That was Labor Secretary Bienvenido La Guesma.
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