The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) will honor top Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs) during its 87th anniversary celebration on Dec. 8 for their exemplary delivery of job facilitation service.
According to DoLE, champions in this year’s national search for best PESO are Laguna, Tarlac, and Davao del Sur, with PESO Tarlac earning the Hall of Fame for winning the best PESO award for three consecutive years.
In Calabarzon or Region 4-A, the best PESO awardees were PESO Angono, Rizal; PESO Pila, Laguna; PESO Balete, Batangas; and the University of Batangas for the first- to second-class municipality, third- to fourth-class municipality, fifth-to sixth-class municipality, and job placement office categories, respectively.
PESO Angono, Rizal; PESO Balete, Batangas; and the University of Batangas Job Placement Office were elevated to the Hall of Fame.
Also to be recognized are PESO Mandaluyong City (National Capital Region) for the highly urbanized city category; PESO Oroquieta City, Misamis Occidental (Region 10) for the component city category; and PESO Marinduque (Mimaropa) for the third- to fifth-class province category.
DoLE said the champions will receive P150,000 each while the Hall of Fame Awardees will receive another P250,000 each.
In a statement, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III thanked PESOs for making employment facilitation programs and opportunities more accessible in local communities.
“May our story of productive partnership be the driving force for the PESOs, through the leadership of the PESO Managers’ Association of the Philippines, further extending our reach to inaccessible areas and improve our services to job seekers and the Filipino workforce,” he said.
The search for best PESO also coincides with the 20th anniversary of the PESO Act or Republic Act No. 8759.
The law mandates the establishment of a PESO in every province, key city, and other strategic areas throughout the country to ensure prompt, timely, and efficient delivery of employment service and provision of information on DOLE programs.
To date, there are 1,952 established PESOs in the country, 531 of which are now institutionalized.