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The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) plans to hire some 6.000 more people
in the coming years, expanding its employee
base from 24.000 to 30.000, said ICE's
president, Pedro Pablo Quirós, in an
announcement yesterday.
Quirós said that the additional employees
will be required by the state agency to
develop a number of projects being planned,
including the expansion of the 3G cellular
telephone network, which alone will required
the some 800 new people.
The new generation of cellular service will
be maintained by ICE employees, rather than
than being outsourced, according to Quirós.
The construction of the 3G network was
awared to the Chinese company, Huawei
Technologies, which is under contract to
deliver the network by the end of the year.
Another project of great importance to the
institution is the construction of the hydro
electric generation station El Diquís,
located in the Southern zone.
That project alone will require 3.500 people
and will be complete by 2016.
Quirós said the increase in employees will
increase the institution's payroll to some
¢245 billion colones, from the current ¢188
billion a year.
The ICE president also is advocating a
renewal of the staff, and hedging the
institution's future on a younger group of
trained professionals, which, according to
Quirós is much cheaper than paying to
training older employees.
According to Quirós, the median age of ICE
employees in 2006 was 47 years of age, now
it is down to 42 years of age.
Quirós added that he hopes to see an
increase of women employees, who currently
make yp 16% of the ICE employees. Quirós
said he would like to see that number
increase to 20%, though he feels is still
too low.
The ICE head said that that more staff will
be needed in all areas, including
maintenance and security. |
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