Lso Acknowledged That More Needs To Be Done Improve The Current Safety Net For Workers As These Are Insufficient Even Their Basic News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
MANILA-The government must convene its agencies to improve the social protection of Filipino workers and strengthen their safety nets including the retirees. This was the observation of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano at Monday's organizational meeting of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resource Development, adding that the state financial aid program can serve as protection of workers. Cayetano said this was done during the administration of former President Joseph Estrada when officials from the Social Security System, Government Service Insurance System, Department of Finance, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Labor and Employment, and other government agencies and non-governmental organizations implementing social protection programs came together to coordinate their policies. "I think the (government's) social protection cluster can come up with some programs that will actually hit two or three birds with one stone," he s