The P1.14-trillion employment recovery plan that is expected to generate at least 220,000 jobs and assist over 1.4 million Filipinos struggling with unemployment and income losses has finally received the green light from Malacañang. A barbershop worker in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. (File...
A simple yet great president. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (left) and former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III (Photo credits: Zoom meeting screengrab, Facebook page of Noynoy Aquino) That's how Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III described the late...
The Philippine government will soon allow the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Oman again now that Filipino and Omani officials have managed to smooth things out on the matter of travel restrictions. Muscat, capital of Oman. (Photo by Mayur / Unsplash) According to Philippine...
Practically all of the 1,500 slots added to the Inter-Agency Task Force's (IATF) annual deployment cap on Filipino healthcare workers (HCWs) will be used by nurses who secured jobs abroad. (Screengrab from Facebook live) This was bared by Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)...
Here's proof that some countries simply can't afford to not have overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). (Photo Silas Baisch / Unsplash) Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III is meeting with his counterpart from the Sultanate of Oman Friday night June 18 to find a...
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) has agreed to raise the annual deployment cap on Filipino healthcare workers (HCWs) from 5,000 to 6,500. (Kevin Tristan Espiritu / The Medical City / File photo /MANILA BULLETIN) This was bared by Department of...
Exempting medical technologists or med techs from the list of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) with limited annual deployment such as doctors and nurses makes sense to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (Screengrab from Zoom...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III says the Philippines will no longer be sending overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Oman. IRKED--DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III is visibly irate as he talks about Oman's travel ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) during...
Here's potential good news for Filipino healthcare workers who are still aspiring to work abroad amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. (Kevin Tristan Espiritu / The Medical City / File photo /MANILA BULLETIN) Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III bared...
Having a Public Employment Service Office (PESO) has just become a necessity for local government units (LGUs) aiming to win the coveted Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) award. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (Photo from DOLE Facebook page) This, after the Department of Labor and Employment...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) have teamed up to address the plight of public utility vehicle (PUV) workers--a sector that had been brought to its knees by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade (left) and...
The supposed abundance of job opportunities in the United States (US) has spurred the Philippine Association of Medical Technologists (PAMET) to seek a review of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases's (IATF) annual deployment cap on Filipino healthcare...
