Labour Ministry Approves
100 Driver Jobs To
ForeignersA
total of 100 foreigners,
the majority Nicaraguans
and Colombians, will be
given a work permit to
work as chaufferes in
Costa Rica for a period
of six months.
Johnny Ruiz, head of
Migraciones Laborales
del Ministerio de
Trabajo, recommended
that the immigration
service issue the work
permits after a study
revealed a shortage of
manpower in those areas.
However, the head of the
Sindicato Costarricense
de Transporte (Transport
union), Eduardo Porras,
assures that there is
Costa Rican manpower to
fill the demand.
"The people are on the
streets, there are many
Costa Ricans who need
work to maintain their
families", said Porras.
With the Ministerio de
Trabajo decision,
companies who short of
drivers have only to
apply to the immigration
service.
The decision came days
before the announcement
of awarding concessions
to seven "rutas
intersectoriales" (cross
town bus routes).
The rutas
intersectoriales will
permit bus to operate
between points without
having to go into
downtown San José.
Currently, anyone
travelling from Escazú
to Alajuelita,
neighbouring
communities, must take a
bus to downtown San José
and then another to
their destination. The
rutas intersectoriales
bus will mean only one
bus to travel to and
from either community.
The other six cross town
routes are: Desamparados-Moravia,
Guadalupe-La Uruca,
Hatillo-Guadalupe,
Moravia-La Valencia, La
Uruca-Escazú, and Santa
Ana-San Antonio-La
Valencia.
The rutas
intersectoriales were a
result of a study "Estudios
del Proyecto de
Planificación Regional y
Urbana de la GAM (Prugam)"
which reaffirmed the
need for an alternative
transportation
concession to avoid the
daily traffic congestion
in downtown San José.
Prugam aims to eliminate
a great quantity of
people from having to
enter downtown San José
daily to transfer to
destinations outside of
downtown and reducing
the number of buses to
and from many adjoining
communities.
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