TESDA Eastern Visayas Regional Director Toni June Tamayo said representatives from EEI Corporation, the engineering, procurement and construction contractor of MRT-7 would select skilled workers through a trade test next week.
“They asked us the
names of graduates in the past two years ago. If they would pass the
examination, they will work for the rapid transit line project,” Tamayo said.
“For those who will not
pass, the company refers them to training centers where they will be given
additional enhancement training for them to pass the trade test,” he added.
Last week, officials
from EEI Corporation gathered TESDA graduates from Leyte and Biliran provinces
with construction-related skills to the Enrollment and Jobs Bridging Fair
held at Robinsons Place here.
EEI expanded their
search for workforce in provinces to give opportunities to job seekers in
provinces to land a job, Tamayo said.
The government picked
Universal LRT Corporation BVI, a subsidiary of San Miguel Corporation (SMC) as
the builder of MRT Line 7 in 2008. SMC tapped the consortium of Hyundai Rotem
and EEI Corporation as the contractor.
The PHP62.7 billion
project will include a 22.8 kilometer of a mostly elevated railway line with 14
stations that will start in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan and will end in Quezon
City.
Aside from EEI
Construction, the Makati Development Corporation also forged a partnership with
TESDA 8 for a dual training scheme.
Under the
partnership, trainees will spend 60 percent of their time in the training
center while the remaining 40 percent will be spent at the construction site.
The partnership with
industries is not only beneficial to TESDA in attaining its goal to make all
their trainees employed.
“TESDA will supply
the skills and labor needed by the Build, Build, Build program of President
Rodrigo Duterte,” Tamayo added. (RTA/PNA)
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