An estimated 30 percent of the Filipino nurses who were displaced from their jobs abroad as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are willing to work in the Philippines temporarily. (Screengrab from DOLE Facebook live) Marianito Roque, former Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is moving forward with its planned construction of a dedicated hospital for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) even as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to rage. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (Photo from DOLE Facebook page)...
The National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) and its Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs) have officially opened the call for entries to the 2021 Productivity Olympics in the new normal. NWPC Executive Director Maria Criselda Sy (Screengrab from Zoom meeting) But what...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is "encouraged" by the latest Labor Force Survey results, which, among other things, showed the lowest unemployment rate in the country since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic began last year. (Mark Balmores / MANILA BULLETIN) "The signs are...
Believing that “it will do more harm than good,” Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has rejected the request of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to make the n ational p olice c learance (NPC) a requirement in the agency’s various transactions . DOLE...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) says it is closely monitoring the situation in Hong Kong following its government's decision to make coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccinations mandatory among the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers there. Hong Kong (Photo by Elton Yung/...
Over 4,000 individuals either secured jobs or were on the brink of doing so in the aftermath of the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) nationwide simultaneous online job fair on Labor Day last Saturday, May 1. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Of the...
The total vacancies in the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) much-hyped Labor Day online job fair has now ballooned to over 52,000. (Photo by Luis Villasmil/ Unsplash) "Pangungunahan po ni Secretary Bello ang pagbubukas ng nationwide, simultaneous job fair na mayroon na po, as of 12 noon...
The sheer number of job vacancies that will be offered in the upcoming Labor Day job fair makes Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III think that the country’s employment situation isn't so bad. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (Video screengrab from Zoom...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is now a "compensable illness" as far as the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) is concerned. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III. (File photo/ Photo screengrab from DOLE Facebook page) Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III...
Three thousand jabs for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and 2,000 jabs for local minimum wage earners. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (L) and DOLE Director Rolly Francia during the online press briefing on April 28, 2021. (Photo screengrab from DOLE Facebook page) That's how the 5,000...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) took to Facebook Monday, April 26 to flex its growing list of accomplishments under the Duterte administration during the past five years. DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade (Photo from DOTr Facebook page) Since the agency covers the land, sea, and air sectors, the...
