RAWIS, Legazpi City (Dec 6, 2013) —The public works agency has temporarily deferred the recruitment of carpenters and other skilled construction workers who are to be sent to typhoon-ravaged provinces of Samar and Leyte to construct bunkers and other temporary living quarters for thousands of homeless victims.
Sources from the regional Office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) here said that the recruitment of carpenters and other construction workers has been put on hold pending the deliveries of construction materials in designated housing sites in the Central Visayas.
In Camarines Sur province, DPWH 5th Engineering district office head Willard Atutubo has announced over local radio the availability of jobs for carpenters since Dec. 2. About 73 carpenters who are to receive daily wage of Php 472 per day and free food and lodging have already been recruited by the DPWH district office.
Atutubo said the DPWH recruitment for carpenters were done in all engineering districts in Bicol with initial information that the carpenters and other work crew would start the construction of bunker houses in the Visayas from Dec. 1 to 31 of this year. (SONNY SALES)