Airport to start hiring emergency employees

Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) authorities will start today the hiring of some 200 emergency employees in response to the promise of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to create jobs for the unemployed.

Airport General Manager Edgardo Manda said that the emergency employees will be hired for a six-month period on a daily minimum wage. Those to be hired would be taken from the depressed of Parañaque and Pasay areas.

Manda also said that the emergency employees will work on the landscaping and drainage cleaning project of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal I and II.

"We have the necessary funding for the project," Manda said, adding that the salaries of the emergency employees will come from the savings of NAIA.

The old international terminal, according to Manda, will also undergo some face-lifting and repair of facilities like the laying of new water pipes and the installation of electrical wiring and repair of some portions of the building. "All these need extra manpower. At the start, we’ll be hiring 200 emergency employees. We’ll be hiring more as the need arises," he added. – Rey Arquiza