The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has started planning its intervention measures in case of a massive lay-off of Filipinos working in Philippine offshore gaming operations (POGOs). During the #LagingHanda public briefing on Wednesday, Oct. 12, DOLE Undersecretary for Workers Welfare and...
A total of 5,580 displaced workers in Isabela have benefited from the emergency employment program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). According to DOLE Isabela Field Office (IFO), the payout of salary for Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD)...
Commission on Appointments (CA) Majority Leader and Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte says he has zero doubts regarding Bienvenido Laguesma's competence and capability as Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) secretary. Laguesma, whose appointment to the Cabinet post was...
The powerful bicameral Commission on Appointment (CA) confirmed today the appointment of Bienvenido Estudillo Laguesma as Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) secretary. In today’s CA plenary session. Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, concurrent CA chairman, banged his gavel to declare...
That's quick. Just three days--and on a weekend-- after it was raised by a party-list group representative, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) suspended its policy that bars teachers and other professionals with pending administrative cases arising from unpaid debts from getting their...
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Alfredo Pascual said it would be "bad for the country" if the work-from-home (WFH) arrangement for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Information Technology and Business Processing Management (IT-BPM) firms doesn't get extended beyond Sept. 12....
Senior Deputy Minority Leader and ACT-Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro took up the cudgels on Thursday, Sept. 8 for teachers who have been vicmtized by the Professional Regulation Commission's (PRC) “utang-tagging”. ACT-Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro Castro raised the matter...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma earned major brownie points from House of Representatives members Thursday, Sept. 8 when he declined to suggest an amount that the solons could add to the agency's proposed budget for 2023. DOLE Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte says the whole School Year 2022-23 is the time frame within which to conduct a comprehensive review of the country’s K-12 basic education program that has always been the object of close public scrutiny. Vice President Sara Duterte (Photo from...
Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma allayed fears of government workers of being booted out of job following the proposal of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to all agencies to initiate belt-tightening measures amid the economic crunches that the country is continue facing. The...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Newly-appointed Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said all the right things during an early morning interview with DZRH anchor Deo Macalma on July 11. Inclusivity in OFW deployment, dialogues with different labor and labor recruitment groups, support for the government...
Former Department of Labor and Employment Secretary (DOLE) Bienvenido Laguesma has been nominated by President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to reprise his role in the DOLE in the incoming administration’s cabinet. The 71-year-old Marcos pick, in an ANC interview, bared that his...
