POLO Tokyo goes on Chiba site visit

26 June 201226 June 2012 cherry

Labor Attaché Clifford A. Paragua (right) of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO Tokyo), Philippine Embassy, speaks before a group of young Filipino technical intern trainees in a training center of Friend Nippon, a Japanese Supervising Organization in Chiba hiring the biggest number of Filipino technical intern trainees.

Welfare Officer Liwayway Ilo (center) of POLO Tokyo pose with Filipino technical intern trainees hired by Friend Nippon, a Japanese Supervising Organization in Chiba.

Some seventy-two (72) Filipino technical intern trainees who were hired from the Philippines by a Japanese Supervising Organization in Chiba are undergoing one month of intensive Nihongo lessons before they are dispatched to companies needing their services in various prefectures in Japan.
Labor Attaché Clifford Paragua and Welfare Officer Liwayway Ilo took time out from their schedules to visit the trainees upon the invitation of the supervising organization.
In his remarks to the technical intern trainees, Labatt Paragua stressed the need to do their best and maintain good discipline in the workplace. He mentioned that each and every technical intern must try his or her best to maintain the image of Filipino workers in Japan, noting that more and more Japanese companies are hiring Filipino workers.
Labatt Paragua observed that in the year 2010, more than 4,000 technical interns were hired by Japanese companies in various prefectures in Japan. In 2011, this number more than doubled, as Japanese companies requested for the hiring of more than 8,000 technical interns from the Philippines.
The figures for 2012, so far, indicates that this increasing trend will continue as more and more workers are needed in the agriculture sector, in manufacturing and in the services sector.
Welfare Officer Ilo assured the Chiba technical interns that they can avail themselves of the welfare and workers protection programs of POLO Tokyo as part of the service package of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).