00:00At the nearing deadline for the closure of the POGOs in the country,
00:04the Labor Department held a job fair for the employees who will lose their jobs.
00:11But only a few of them showed up.
00:14Mark Salazar was there.
00:20The Labor Department held two special job fairs
00:24to raise money for the 27,000 displaced POGO workers.
00:29But in this job fair in Makati, only seven former POGO employees showed up.
00:35One of them is Mary Jane De Los Reyes, a former data analyst
00:39in an internet gaming licensee.
00:42Encoding bank transactions, deposit and withdrawals
00:46of players, online games.
00:49It's bigger compared to normal companies.
00:53When she was invited and I talked to others,
00:56they said their salary is low and decent, and it benefits the legal POGOs.
01:02We started with basic pay.
01:05I started with 14,000 plus allowance, 5,000.
01:12Then in four years, it increased.
01:15And we have allowances, like house allowance, incentives,
01:20and other allowances that they give.
01:25We also get government benefits.
01:28It's illegal.
01:31It used to be legal.
01:33It's a waste.
01:35It's okay.
01:37Actually, we get a minimum,
01:39but you won't feel the allowance and incentives.
01:44Mary Jane was hired on the spot in a job fair
01:47as an operations specialist in a small company.
01:50While Jude was hired as an asset specialist in a warehouse.
01:55The Bureau for Local Employment of DOLE noticed
01:58that there were few displaced POGO workers,
02:01even though they were told one by one.
02:04What our field offices have done is that,
02:06since we have contacts with their programs,
02:09we can immediately communicate the activities that we are doing,
02:13just like the job fairs that we are doing now.
02:17At the job fair in Paranaque,
02:1940 former POGO employees applied for jobs.
02:22Many of them were hired on the spot.
02:25They are kitchen staff who work at the POGO establishment.
02:29They are kitchen staff who work at local employment companies.
02:34There are still more applicants at the job fair
02:37who applied for jobs and are looking for new jobs.
02:41One of them is PWD's Jeffrey.
02:45Of course, you need to have income.
02:51I quit my previous job because I wanted to try a corporate job.
02:57Jeffrey is a professional and came from an academy.
03:00But he has a hard time keeping up with the labor market.
03:03We will forward their application to our recruiters.
03:09Once we are qualified, we will call you for another set of interview.
03:14The Bureau for Local Employment said
03:16that if this continues, the economy will be affected.
03:19That's why there are more job openings.
03:21We're expecting that the performance of the labor market will get better
03:25given that there will be more demands for workers,
03:28particularly during this Christmas season.
03:30But the job mismatch is still an issue
03:34or the lack of proper work for the right applicant.
03:39For GMA Integrated News, Mark Salazar.
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