{"id":337655,"date":"2021-02-01T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=337655"},"modified":"2021-02-01T06:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T20:05:30","slug":"jones-is-new-shrm-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jones-is-new-shrm-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones is new SHRM president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for Human Resource Management-NMI Chapter has sworn in a new batch of board members for 2021 headed by newly appointed president Penelope Jones. <\/p>\n<p>Jones, who is with Hyatt Regency Saipan, says the main focus this year is the chapter\u2019s membership and generating public interest. \u201cWe want to focus on our members and non-members, and try to come up with ideas and topics that would be more of interest [to] the public as well,\u201d she said. \u201cBased on the survey we have, there is so much about [COVID-19 and] coming back to the workplace, but what we need to be cautious of are the employees and employees\u2019 rights.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Josephine Mesta, director of Human Resource of Hyatt Regency Saipan, administered the oath of office to its 2021 board members.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Jones,  the other new SHRM members are vice president Jacklyn Michelle Atalig from Docomo Pacific; secretary Nicole Babauta from the CNMI Department from Commerce and Northern Marianas College; treasurer Denise Montenegro from Hyatt Regency Saipan; membership director Angelo Rabe from Kanoa Resort Saipan; marketing director Roman Tudela from the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.; programs director Vanessa Deleon Guerrero also from CHCC; legislative director Catherine Cachero from Marianas Legal Strategy Group LLC; certification director Frank Gibson from HR Support CNMI; chapter advisers Francisco Ada from Triple J Saipan Inc. and Shirley Dotts from IT&amp;E; and past president Proserpina Magofna from Crowne Plaza Resort Saipan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for Human Resource Management-NMI Chapter has sworn in a new batch of board&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":330354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-337655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-shrm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337655","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}