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+ April 25, 2021 MORE contact tracers can now be hired by local government units (LGUs) in the National Capital Region to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, with an additional P65 million earmarked by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
“The local governments through their respective Public Employment Service Offices (Peso) can boost their contact tracing with the additional funding,” Labor Secretary Silvestre Silvestro Bello III said.
Bello said the additional fund still comes from DOLE’s Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (Tupad) program.
Tupad is a cash-for-work program of DOLE meant to aid informal workers displaced by the pandemic.
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File February 12, 2021 CITING the need to adapt to the new normal,” the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Central Visayas urged local Public Employment Service Offices (Peso) to start organizing virtual job fairs. Given the demands of the times, we, in government, also have to graduate from the usual way of doing things and explore something new that can better address the requirements of the new normal,” DOLE-7 Regional Director Salome Siaton said during the the two-day Regional Peso Managers’ Year-End Planning Congress 2020.
“One of the things that we are now looking into is the conduct of the virtual job fairs at the local government units, through their respective Peso,” she added.