Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. has sought passage of a bill that seeks to promote and ensure the welfare of field reporters, news writers, cameramen, photographers and other media and entertainment workers by giving them greater protection and institutionalized social security benefits. In...
MANILA – The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released PHP14 billion to finance the monthly pension of more than 137,000 eligible military retirees for the first quarter of 2023. Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman approved on Thursday the release of a Special Allotment Release...
MANILA – All programs, projects and activities of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict [(NTF ELCAC](https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1192650) ) would proceed despite the transition to a new leadership. "NSA (National Security Adviser) Dr. Clarita Carlos stressed that...
QUEZON Rep. David C. Suarez, DOLE provincial director Edwin Hernandez, and board member Ferdinand Talabong with DOLE-TUPAD beneficiaries during the payout in Lucena City. (Danny Estacio) LUCENA CITY, Quezon – Some 1,000 beneficiaries of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-TUPAD program...
Employees who reported to work on Monday, Dec. 26, are entitled to an additional pay as it is a special non-working holiday, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. (File photo) DOLE Sec. Bienvenido Laguesma has signed Labor Advisory No. 26, Series of 2022 which stated that employees...
A total of 2,236 informal and vulnerable workers in the province of Isabela are the recent beneficiary of the emergency employment program under the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported on Sunday, Dec....
Employers who have not yet provided a 13th-month pay obligation to their employees have at least five days more to comply starting Monday, Dec. 19, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) noted on Sunday, Dec. 18. In an interview with DOLE Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma on Super Radyo dzBB, he...
Minimum wage earners in Northern Mindanao received a P15- to P22-increase in their daily take-home pay as the second tranche of the approved wage order for Region 10 took effect on Friday, Dec. 16, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Photo: DOLE Under the wage order RX-21 of...
A total of 61,169 job applicants were given employment this year, according to the report of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region 2 on Wednesday, Dec. 14. DOLE Regional Director Joel M. Gonzales said that as of November, they logged a 95.25 percent placement rate out of 64,220...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has augmented its emergency employment program to support the operation of the “Kadiwa sa Pasko 2022” caravan in selected areas in Metro Manila. DOLE-National Capital Region (NCCR) director Sarah Buena S. Mirasol said Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating...
Private employees who are interested in availing Covid-19 vaccination during the government's second batch of nationwide vaccination must be excused from work, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. A Labor Advisory, Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said all employees in the private...
TECH4GOOD Monchito B. Ibrahim, former DICT Undersecretary Several months back, I featured in this column the correlation between having the right skills for its workforce and the country’s global competitiveness and how having an effective skills development program will position it to take...
