The Senate labor committee wrapped up on Monday, May 10, its deliberation on the proposed creation of the Department for Overseas Filipinos (DOFIL). Senator Joel Villanueva speaks during a Senate hearing on February 24, 2020. (Senate PRIB/Henzberg Austria) Senator Joel Villanueva, committee...
Senators on Monday, May 10, quizzed Cabinet officials on the Duterte administration's push to create a Department of Overseas Filipinos (DOFIL), now supposedly made more urgent by the COVID-19 pandemic. Overseas Filipino workers who were quarantined for weeks wait for flights back to their home...
Over P221 million cash assistance for more than 44,000 tourism workers in the Western Visayas have been approved by the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to assist them amid the ongoing pandemic. (Photo from Department of Tourism / MANILA BULLETIN) A...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is "encouraged" by the latest Labor Force Survey results, which, among other things, showed the lowest unemployment rate in the country since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic began last year. (Mark Balmores / MANILA BULLETIN) "The signs are...
Senator Joel Villanueva commended on Wednesday, May 5, Secretary Silvestre Bello III for turning down the Philippine National Police's (PNP) proposal to require police clearances in labor transactions. Senator Joel Villanueva (Senate of the Philippines/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Bello, in a reply...
Believing that “it will do more harm than good,” Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has rejected the request of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to make the n ational p olice c learance (NPC) a requirement in the agency’s various transactions . DOLE...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) operatives recently arrested 49 foreign laborers inside the factory of a steel company in Maasim town, Sarangani province for alleged misrepresentation. (Photo from BI Facebook page) BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said the foreigners--all Chinese nationals--have work...
Over 4,000 individuals either secured jobs or were on the brink of doing so in the aftermath of the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) nationwide simultaneous online job fair on Labor Day last Saturday, May 1. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Of the...
A total of 150 frontline staff of quarantine hotels were among the thousands of workers who benefitted from the symbolic vaccination of laborers against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) last Saturday, May 1, as part of the government's celebration of Labor Day. (Manila Public Information Office...
The League of Filipino Students (LFS) slammed the arrest and harassment of over a dozen activists in Zambales and Cebu on Labor Day, May 1. (Photo from LFS) "Today, 11 members of the League have been arrested in Zambales, and at least 14 in Cebu," the group said in a statement on Saturday. Eleven...
(Labor day statement of Former Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.) The paramount concern this labor day is for our leaders to ensure existing jobs are preserved and new employment is created. 4.2 million Filipinos are now unemployed nationwide, with 1 million workers losing their jobs in the NCR-PLUS...
The government should exhaust all means to assist small businesses that have been affected by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to prevent further job losses, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said on Saturday, May 1. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian Gatchalian issued the appeal as the country...
