{"id":303162,"date":"2019-07-10T06:06:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=303162"},"modified":"2019-07-10T06:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:06:46","slug":"cnmi-sees-1st-quarter-fall-in-jvas-job-openings-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cnmi-sees-1st-quarter-fall-in-jvas-job-openings-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI sees 1st quarter fall in JVAs, job openings for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_303165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303165\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JVA-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JVA-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNMI Department of Labor Secretary Vicky Benavente delivers her presentation to the Rotary Club of Saipan during their usual Tuesday meeting yesterday at the Hyatt Regency Saipan. (Marc A. Venus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas is experiencing a fall on Job Vacancy Announcements or JVAs in the first quarter of 2019. Labor Secretary Vicky Benavente shared this to members of the Rotary Club of Saipan during their usual Tuesday meetings yesterday at the Hyatt Regency Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the CNMI DOL\u2019s 2019 first quarter JVA numbers dropped by 10% compared to 2018\u2019s first quarter numbers. As of yesterday, the numbers show that 5,200 JVAs have been posted and only 14,000 job openings were seen.<\/p>\n<p>Benavente reported that in 2016, there were over 6,000 JVAs with a total of 38,000 job openings.<\/p>\n<p>She reports that 2017 saw a rise with about 8,000 JVAs and a total of 39,000 job openings.<\/p>\n<p>Last year also saw a rise in JVAs as the CNMI Department of Labor received 9,000 JVAs and a significant rise of 42,000 job openings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trend was continuing to grow, meaning the economy was strong and businesses were needing more people,\u201d Benavente added.<\/p>\n<p>Benavente points out that the causes behind the fall in 2019\u2019s first quarter JVA numbers is from Super Typhoon Yutu and Typhoon Mangkhut; with both causing a significant amount of businesses to close down, observe reduced hours, or reduce employment numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some businesses still undergoing recovery,\u201d Benavente said.<\/p>\n<p>She states the other two causes are the removal of the Philippines from the H-2B worker visa program and the CNMI\u2019s prevailing wage.<\/p>\n<p>Benavente also thanked the United States Department of Labor for providing millions of dollars in disaster assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas is experiencing a fall on Job Vacancy Announcements or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":303165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-303162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}