Disadvantaged Workers Program News Today

400 benefit from DOLE emergency employment assistance

ADVOCACY. A health worker conducts house-to-house advocacy against dengue in the municipality of Sibalom, which has the highest cases in the province of Antique, on April 26, 2022. Sheree Vego, Integrated Provincial Health Office nurse 4, said in an interview Monday (May 16) they will hold a stakeholders' meeting on May 17 to prevent the further increase of dengue. (PNA photo courtesy of Antique IPHO) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - The Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) is conduct...

DOLE’s TUPAD benefits over 39,000 folks in Zamboanga Peninsula

A poster welcoming DOLE Sec. Silvestre Bello during his visit in Zamboanga Peninsula. ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Department of Labor and Employment has distributed some PHP157.5 million to 39,312 beneficiaries throughout Region 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) through the DOLE's Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Displaced/Disadvantaged Workers Program (TUPAD). DOLE Sec. Silvestre Bello III personally supervised the release of TUPAD pay-out to the beneficiaries during his two-day visit here in the region from ...

Workers wearing face masks ride atop a truck in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap/Manila Bulletin) DOLE-6 Regional Director Cyril Ticao said the cash aid was given to both formal and informal workers in the region comprising of Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo, and Negros Occidental provinces as well as the highly urbanized cities of Iloilo and Bacolod. The biggest chunk of the cash aid is for DOLE’s Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Displaced or Disadvantaged Workers Program for #Barangay Ko, Bahay...