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DOLE Bicol director Ma. Zenaida Angara-Campita (Screengrab from Laging Handa briefing) MANILA - Employment figures in the Bicol Region have improved as the country's economic reopening continues amid the coronavirus pandemic, a regional labor official said on Friday. Maria Zenaida Angara-Campita, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) V director, said the region's employment figure has increased to 2.3 million as of July this year, from only 2.1 million in the same period last year. &...

DOLE-Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) director Nathaniel Lacambra (Screengrab from Laging Handa briefing) MANILA - Some 4,625 workers displaced by the July 27 magnitude 7 earthquake that rocked Northern Luzon are set to benefit from the emergency employment program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), an official said on Thursday. In a Laging Handa presser, DOLE-Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) Director Nathaniel Lacambra said the agency's central office has released...

Senator Joel Villanueva today July 4 filed the first 20 of his priority bills for the 19th Congress to continue his advocacy and fulfill his campaign promises of job creation and security. “For our second term, our job in the Senate is still jobs. We are pushing for job opportunities and job securi

Re-elected Senator Joel Villanueva on Monday took his oath of office in front of the historic Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan.

Rebuilding livelihood Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III highlights the Department’s assistance to informal sector workers, such as the DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program and the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers Program to help them rebuild their livelihood as the c

The P10-billion additional budget that the House of Representatives granted the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) underscores the chamber’s full trust and confidence in the ability of DOLE officials to effectively address the urgent needs of millions of displaced Filipino workers. Sec

House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco (File photo) MANILA - The House of Representatives is targeting to transmit its approved version of the 2022 General Appropriations Bill to the Senate on or before October 27 to give senators ample time to examine the government's spending plan for next year, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco said on Friday. In a statement, Velasco said the House-approved version of the proposed 2022 national budget contained institutional amendments designed to help boost the gover...

Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has vowed to transmit to the Senate the proposed P5.024-trillion General Appropriations Act on October 27 to ensure the timely enactment of the measure. Speaker Lord Allan Velasco3 This after a five man committee in the Lower House consolidated the proposed amendments

The House of Representatives on Thursday, Oct. 13 re-aligned a total P65.504 billion from the proposed 2022 national budget of P5.024 trillion to finance priority programs under a pandemic situation that included the procurement of additional anti-COVID 19 vaccines and booster shots. House of Rep

(PNA file photo) MANILA - The House of Representatives has allocated PHP20 billion for the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines and booster shots, as well as PHP4.5 billion for the special risk allowance of public and private health care workers. House Appropriations Committee chair Eric Yap said these are among the amendments introduced by the small committee to House Bill 10153 or the proposed PHP5.024-trillion budget for 2022, which would be "crucial for our full recovery from the pandemic a...