Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has ordred the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to start processing the deployment of workers to South Korea following the announced lifting of restrictions on the entry of foreign workers there. The arrival...
The Tingog Partylist on Friday, Nov. 5 lauded the decision of the House of Representatives to increase by P10 billion next year’s allocation for the implementation of the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program amid the rise in unemployment in the country....
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) believes that the increase in the number of unemployed Filipinos in September was only a "temporary setback" towards a continued and sustained recovery of the labor market. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Based on the latest Philippine Statistics...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to form a technical working group (TWG) to expedite the release of unpaid wages and end of contract payments of Filipino migrant workers from Saudi Arabia who were forced to return home in 2016. (Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) "The...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has vowed to push for equal representation of big and small member states in the policy-making body of the International Labor Organization (ILO). Secretary Silvestre Bello III In his recent meeting with Swiss Ambassador...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is expected to pay the P4.6 billion unpaid salaries to around 9,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who were forced to return to the Philippines last 2016. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III is...
A total of 200 workers displaced by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic will undergo training to become freelance food delivery riders for foodpanda Philippines, one of the popular food delivery online platforms in the country. The training program was formalized through the signing of...
• It’s not just a bike and a phone, it’s livelihood opportunity for the poor • The project was initiated by the Department of Labor and Employment’s Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program • Qualified citizens are given a bicycle, mobile phone and load to expand their...
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III reiterated that employers cannot terminate their workers who refuse to get vaccinated but are allowed to order them not to report to work. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Bello cited the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious...
Mounting complaints on salary delays have been raised by contact tracers who were hired by the government to help identify and locate those who have close contacts with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-infected persons. But Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Friday appealed to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to ensure that the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) resolution, now feared by unvaccinated workers, would not be abused by business owners, especially those in the restaurant and in-person...
A Palace official has asked the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) make vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mandatory for specific workers. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) In his letter to DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III, Presidential Adviser for...
