MANILA – Pag-IBIG announced yesterday that it will  intensify its efforts to enforce the mandatory provision of Republic Act 9679.

Under R.A. 9679 or the Home Development Mutual Fund Law of 2009, membership in Pag-IBIG Fund is mandatory for all employers and employees covered and should be covered by the SSS and the GSIS.

By end of 2011, Pag-IBIG said there are some 250,000 employers around the country who are not registered with the firm.

BNEFIT to host IT
certification exam

Fresh graduates and professionals in the field of information technology will now have chance to take the Philippine Information Technology General Certification Examination in Bacolod, a press release from the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology Inc. said.

The PHIL-IT GCE is slated on February 3 and 4 at the West Negros University, the press release said.

BNEFIT has been supporting the growth of the ICT-BPO industry in Bacolod and in promoting the city and the province as an ideal outsourcing destination in the Philippines since 2008, it added.

German foundation funds
jewelry-making workshop

A German foundation has funded a workshop in jewelry making in Bacolod City participated in by members of the Association of Negros Producers and the Uswagon Calahunan Livelihood Association of Iloilo City.

The workshop titled “Let’s Bead Together” was held December 8-9, 2011 at the Showroom of the ANP by product designers Katja Drischmann and Anna Kamphues from Germany.

Drischmann said the first workshop they conducted in October 2011 taught participants how to make paper jewelry, while the second in December enabled them to make jewelry out of wood, bottle caps and other recyclable materials.

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