By Haidee V. Eugenio
Variety Assistant Editor

A NONRESIDENT worker with a conditional grant of transfer to work in a tissue manufacturing facility now has to look for another employer after the factory ceased its operations on Dec. 31 due to a decline in business activity.
The Department of Labor said on Aug. 15, 2006, Yong Sang Pacific Corp. filed a transfer application to employ David P. Fausto as a tissue machine operator at its tissue making factory on Saipan.
On the same day, Labor approved a conditional grant of transfer for this employment and Fausto began working for Yong Sang Pacific Corp.
Four months later or on or about Dec. 4, 2006, Yong Sang Pacific Corp. president Choi Myung Sik informed Labor that the company would be ceasing its tissue making operations on Dec. 31, 2006 due to “poor economic projections and a general downturn in business.”
In that letter, Choi asked the director of the Division of Labor to allow Fausto to transfer to another employer.
Labor Hearing Officer Jerry Cody, in an administrative order issued on Monday, granted the transfer relief for Fausto.
Cody gave the worker 45 days from Jan. 22 to find a suitable transfer employer who is required to file a transfer permit application with Labor within the 45-day period.
The hearing officer said if Fausto fails to have a transfer application filed on his behalf within the 45-day period, he shall be repatriated to his original place of hire at the expense of Yong Sang Pacific Corp.