MORE than 200 street sweepers and around 540 barangay health workers will lose jobs.
Mayor Tomas Osmeña said in a press conference yesterday that he is now focusing on hiring part-time sweepers to reduce labor costs. He said part-time sweepers will work two hours a day and will be paid P3,000 a month, but they must come from families with no income at all.
Health workers will also be terminated, according to the mayor.
He said he will instead use the budget intended for the salaries of health workers for medicines and for hiring of out-of-school youth volunteers.
He said volunteers will knock on homes and remind the persons concerned to take their maintenance medicines.
“If a person is not feeling well, he can inform the volunteer, and I will send a nurse,” Osmeña said.
He said the volunteers will work an hour per day, and they will be paid P100. /USJ-R Intern Dafne N. Wenceslao