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BACOLOD CITY - A total of 29,042 vulnerable workers here and in Negros Occidental received emergency employment assistance from the Tulong Pangkabuhayan sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) from January to June this year. The aid, amounting to PHP115.892 million, included wages, personal protective equipment, and insurance coverage. The beneficiaries from Negros Occidental and Bacolod City were among the 95,261 displaced and in...

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File photo SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union - Some 121,791 displaced and disadvantaged workers in the Ilocos Region have been given employment in the first half of 2022 through the emergency employment, Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD). Of the total number, 44,154 workers were from Ilocos Sur, 19,642 from Ilocos Norte, 18,046 from La Union, and 39,949 from Pangasinan. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Ilocos regional di...

YOUNG WORKERS. Qualified students attend an orientation conducted by the Legazpi City Public Employment and Services Office at the Legazpi City Convention Center on Friday (July 15, 2022) before they render services under the Special Program for Employment of Students. The city government has tapped 400 students and out-of-school youths for 20 days of service starting Friday until Aug. 11, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Pierre Dela Pena) LEGAZPI CITY - The city government here has tapped some 400 stud...

Barangay Health Workers (BHW) Party-list on Wednesday, July 6, called on the Marcos administration to provide free transportation services to barangay health workers and other frontliners amid the rising inflation rate, while women’s rights group Gabriela chided the President for dismissing the late

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Taguig City Hall (File photo) MANILA - Taguig City residents benefited from free medical and dental services as Mayor Lani Cayetano returned to the post she held for nine consecutive years. According to Cayetano's office on Friday, her administration's three priorities are health, economic development, and peace and order. The city will continue the work-for-pay initiative under the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) of the Department of Local Employme...

Senator Loren Legarda (File photo) MANILA - On her last day as Lone district Representative of Antique, Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda expressed her pleasure in serving the Filipino people as a member of the House of Representatives over the past three years. "I am grateful to have served the Filipino people, most especially my fellow Antiquenos, alongside my honorable and hardworking colleagues whose hearts I have witnessed to care for visions of the best for our countrymen and empowering ou...

FREE HAIRCUT. A barber from Laoag City provides free haircuts to his townmates in this undated photo. As a Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers beneficiary, he was asked by the Ilocos Norte government to render haircut services in time for Fathers' Day. (Photo by Leilanie Adriano) LAOAG CITY - Some 780 informal workers in Ilocos Norte received Friday a total of PHP3.9 million worth of livelihood assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment and the Ilocos N...

PNA file photo MANILA - A newly-elected lawmaker on Wednesday urged the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to grant conditional amnesty for colorum public utility vehicles (PUVs) so that they could be included in the government's fuel subsidy and the Libreng Sakay program. In a statement, Quezon Representative-elect Reynan Arrogancia said there could be an estimated 1 million colorum or non-franchised PUVs, while only about 200,000 units or beneficiaries have been included in the fuel subsi...