How about
the JJJ program?
The
administration of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, spearheaded by the Department
of Public Works Secretary Mark A. Villar made a complimentary program to make
sure the flagship project’s under the Build, Build, Build (BBB) program will
not be derailed due to lack of manpower.
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To be
launched this month of May the government will be embarking on a mass
recruitment/hiring program, with the technical people as its primary target-
that will be called “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” (JJJ).
“We’re still
working with the DOF [Department of Finance], we’re working with other
agencies, the BBB team, in order to undertake matching with jobs. We are
already looking for people. We are recruiting and we are aggressive in
recruitment. We will have the ‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs’ program for matching,”
Villar said in a Coffee Club Forum sponsored by BusinessMirror.
The Department of Public Works Secretary
explains that the JJJ program will be targeting Filipino professionals locally
and from abroad, and recognized that the government would be in direct
competition with private employers—including and not limited to salary-wise—to
get the required number of skilled people to improve the implementing agencies’
absorptive capacity.
“The cost of labor will go up…but many
will be coming back from overseas. Before, I was in housing [sector], and our
engineers were going abroad. Most of them are still abroad. But, if the salary
here would be competitive, even if not as high, they will come back. That will
become the dynamic,” Villar added.
The government already anticipated the
problem in the recruitment of professionals as it would pursue its gigantic
infrastructure programs for the country, the JJJ program would address this
aspect especially those engineers working abroad, if so they decide to
participate in the BBB program under the Duterte administration. *
Being able to attract returning Overseas
Filipino Workers (OFWs) augurs well for the quality of BBB projects, Villar
said, noting that major infrastructure undertakings abroad, particularly those
in the Middle East, were mainly done by Filipinos.
“We have millions of workers who want to
come back any time, and this will create jobs for them, actually.”he added.
Villar cites that for his department
alone there will be a need to hire 3,000 engineers to implement the BBB project
of President Duterte. They will be also adding seven more lawyers in each
regional office. Currently there were only two lawyers per DPWH office and only
10,000 engineers in the agency nationwide.
With additional personnel, Villar said
the DPWH aims to improve its absorptive capacity. However, he said the
obligations rate of the agency shot up to 92 percent in 2017, despite having
its largest budget in its history.
Secretary Villar bares that the Duterte
administration will be very strict when it comes to project implementation,
most specially the deliverables of the contractors.
The Secretary disclosed that the
government is now processing the
blacklisting of around 10 contractors per region that are underperforming, or
have failed to deliver on time the projects that were awarded to them.*
The government has given them a grace
period of one month, if still they cannot get their acts together these
contractors will be blacklisted.
“We want to see the projects finished
immediately. We give them time to catch up with slippages. If there’s no viable
reason for them, we have to cancel the projects. We have no choice, we have to
award it to others who can do the job,” Villar said.
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