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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Friday, April 7, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Business process outsourcing (BPO) companies might soon be required to put up transport terminals in their premises.
A proposed ordinance is pushing for such requirement primarily to ensure the safety of nightshift BPO employees.
“Several (recent) crimes involved robbers and thieves posing as drivers of taxis or tricycles,” said Councilor Caesar Distrito, author of the ordinance. “Most of their victims are working in BPO companies [on] nightshift.”
The Sangguniang Panlungsod has approved the measure on first reading.
Unfortunately such criminals get away because the victims fail to get their identities, said Distrito, chairman of the committee on laws, ordinances and good government.
Aside from requiring a “transportation bay,” the measure also seeks a system “where information of the driver and the public utility vehicle (PUV) is taken and given to the passenger, similar to the [one] done by malls,” he said.
The measure requires PUVs to pass through the transport bay to pick up passengers and where a dispatcher assigned by the establishment will issue passengers a trip ticket containing important information on the driver and the vehicle./PN
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