IN A NUTSHELL: Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque says PH is running out of construction workers due to infra projects • Tesda to offer free laborers’ training • Gov’t to recruit poor, farmers, ex-rebels to stave off shortage♦ ♦ ♦The country is running out of construction workers due to the government’s “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure program, Malacañang said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT“Of course we have to do this, because apparently the Build, Build, Build program has already resulted in some kind of a shortage for construction workers here in the Philippines, ’no?” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said at a press briefing. Roque said that the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) is offering a free laborers’ training to 100,000 people to supply the demands of the administration’s extensive construction project. He said that the skills development agency would prioritize the recruitment of the poor, former rebels, and indigenous peoples. President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday encouraged New Peoples’ Army (NPA) members to enroll in government-sanctioned skills training.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 08, 2018 11:26 UTC