A glimpse into the SM City Sta. Mesa Job Fair held this month. SM Supermalls, in partnership with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Public Employment Service Office (PESO), and local government units (LGUs), will hold job fairs in some of its malls from April 26 to May 30. The...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has expressed its commitment to the UN’s Global Accelerator program in helping facilitate equitable transitions towards meeting the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The Global Accelerator initiative by the United Nations aims to promote a...
(Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN) Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo “Ompong” Ordanes is urging corporations and enterprises to hire fit-to-work seniors to help reduce poverty and hunger in areas with high population density and high poverty...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will set up 94 job fair sites across the country in celebration of the 122nd Labor Day. In an advisory, the agency's Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) said the job fairs featuring local and overseas employment opportunities will be held in...
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...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (MANILA BULLETIN) Prices of rice--the country’s staple grain--are so impactful that they actually affect the quality of jobs available to Filipinos. Thus, said economist-solon Albay 2nd district...
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...
