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Two Labor officials resign from posts
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Posted on Aug 09 2004
Two key officials at the Department of Labor have quit their posts, amid the major changes being implemented in the agency.
Public information officer Donnalynn Castro resigned from the Labor Department to take on a new job as an analyst at the Office of the Public Auditor. Investigation chief Joseph S. Ada will be retiring effective Dec. 11, 2004 to avoid losing his retirement benefits.
Castro has been working at Labor for five years. She started out as a staff member at the Division of Immigration, which was then still part of department, and worked her way up to the PIO post.
“I thank Dr. Jack [Labor secretary Joaquin Tenorio] for believing in me. I appreciate all the help he gave me. It’s just that I feel I would be able to apply what I’ve studied at OPA. I love investigating, and I’m excited about my new job,” said the criminology graduate from the University of Texas.
For his part, Ada expressed deep regret about leaving the department, where he worked for almost 16 years.
“My thoughts of leaving the Department of Labor was not an easy decision [as] it took several months of serious thinking to decide whether to continue working or to retire upon reaching my eligibility period,” Ada said in an Aug. 6 letter to Labor director Dean O. Tenorio.
He added that his decision to retire was made after consulting his family members and friends. He expressed plans to work in the private sector or to open his own business.
“December is just around the corner now and my time is getting shorter by the day, especially with the too many major changes that are in the process for the betterment of our department and I am glad to be part of that process,” he said. “I am proud that we all have faced those challenges to make our department one of the…best places to work in the CNMI government. My doors are open in the future, should you or any of my successors need my services.”
Ada is in charge of the understaffed investigation unit of the Division of Labor. It was earlier reported that the unit currently has only five investigators handling over 500 complaints from workers.
