{"id":34233,"date":"2014-05-06T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=34233"},"modified":"2014-05-06T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:45:00","slug":"dol-begins-planning-for-semi-annual-job-fairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dol-begins-planning-for-semi-annual-job-fairs\/","title":{"rendered":"DOL begins planning for semi-annual job fairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the call under U.S. Public Law 110-229 for the transition of foreign workers, the CNMI Department of Labor has begun preparations for the next job fairs to be held on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this effort, the department from its last publication on Jan. 17, 2014, of 5,000-plus uncertified r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, to date a total of 2,079 r\u00e9sum\u00e9s have been certified with expected completion date of July 2014 for the remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The department continues to push forward with its transformation initiatives, improvement of services to job-seeking individuals, referrals of status qualified participants to job openings that they are deemed qualified for, and consistent monitoring and compliance of CNMI labor laws.<\/p>\n<p>The department appreciates employers for closely working with the respective CNMI DOL divisions and looks forward to stronger and increased employment opportunities for status qualified participants with all CNMI employers.<\/p>\n<p>In consideration of high school students exiting for their summer break, the job fair for Saipan is tentatively planned for June 19-21, 2014, Tinian on July 18, 2014, and Rota on July 25, 2014. Any change in the job fair schedules the department will publish the information accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>The department also encourages businesses to participate in the free OSHA On-Site Consultation Services for their workplace safety and health program. This program is funded under a Cooperative Agreement with the US DOL Occupational Safety and Health Administration Region 9 San Francisco.<b><i> (PR)\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the call under U.S. Public Law 110-229 for the transition of foreign workers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,573,55,675],"class_list":["post-34233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-dol","tag-health-2","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}