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 half of the PHP50 million budget for the program known as the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa ating Disadvantaged and Displaced Workers Program (TUPAD). "The Central Office has initially released PHP25 million for the purpose. I decided that we will focus the use of this fund on Abra, being the hardest hit province by the earthquake," Lacambra said. He added that the remaining PHP25 million will be allotted for other areas in the Cordillera. While some areas did not suffer heavy damage to bu
The Parañaque City government launched the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) on Monday, July 25, for 300 student beneficiaries.
Mayor Eric Olivarez announced the launching of SPES during the regular virtual flag ceremony held at the Parañaque City Hall quadrangle.
Olivarez said t
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 students and out-of-school-youths for this year's Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) starting Friday. Diosdado Raneses, manager of the city's Public Employment Service Office (PESO), said the students will render services, not in different city offices, but by doing urban gardening in their respective residences for 20 days. "It is one way to serve as a training for the youth-students to learn the importance of gardening, edible landscaping, among others," he said in
More than 90,000 minors have been saved from harmful working environment as the national government steps up the campaign to address child labor in the country, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). DOLE Sec. Silvestre Bello III said the move is part of the Philippine Development Plan 2017
From left: Bea Binene, Arnell Ignacio, and Tuesday Niu “Oh My Job!" the top-rating weekly show for laborers here and abroad, will discuss the various labor organizations that continue to help laborers.
Atty. Connie Bacay, Director IV, Bureau of Labor Relations of the Department Of Labor and E