The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has partnered with the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law and the UP Law Center to launch a paralegal training program for trade union members and laborers. Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said the program aims to strengthen and...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said it will initiate more collaboration with the private and business sectors to boost quality employment securities for Filipinos in the country. In a statement, Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said that he intends to enhance more...
The Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) Regional Operations Cluster aims to improve the current strategies to meet the goals of the department's programs and services at the local level. DOLE Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma and Undersecretary Benedicto Ernesto Bitonio discussed the need to...
ILOILO CITY – Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the National Housing Authority (NHA), has provided assistance to displaced workers from two towns of Iloilo province. Go led the emergency employment program for 570 beneficiaries displaced by...
Employees who would accompany their children to vaccination centers would be exempted from being marked absent, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said in an advisory. “Employers are highly encouraged to allow their employees to be excused from work when they accompany their children...
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) has sternly cautioned the country’s 121 electric cooperatives (ECs) not to be tempted on exploiting the retirement fund of their employees or in utilizing them as convenient piggy bank ready for embezzlement. NEA Administrator Antonio Mariano...
At least 35 former construction workers finally received their unpaid claims from their company through the government's Single Entry Approach (SEnA) Program, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Monday, Apr. 8. In a statement, DOLE said the construction workers received a cheque...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Monday, April 8 urged the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to provide some flexibility to workers who need to work despite the scorching hot weather. Estrada made the appeal after the DOLE issued Advisory No. 17-2022 giving workers an option not...
(Unsplash) The country’s employers must heed the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) advisory for employers to protect their workers from scorching summer heat, Rizal 4th district Rep. Fidel Nograles said. Nograles, chairman of...
Private sector employees who will render work on the observance of the Day of Valor on Tuesday, April 9 and Eidl' Fitr on April 10 are entitled to an additional wage as all the dates were declared a regular holiday, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. In a released statement on...
The second tranche of wage increase amounting to P15 in Region II took effect on April 1, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Wednesday, April 3. Cagayan Valley's wage board recently released Wage Order No. RTWPB 2-22 on Sept. 21, 2023, which provides a P30 raise for...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has urged private sector employers to adopt health and safety measures to protect workers from possible heat stress in workplaces as the temperature rises. In Labor Advisory 08, series of 2023, the DOLE said one method to decrease extreme heat exposure...
