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Published December 22, 2020, 1:05 PM Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat announced that around 27,000 qualified displaced tourism workers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) have been endorsed by the Department to receive the P5,000 cash aid from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).  (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The beneficiaries warmly received their documents as timely tokens for Christmas during the ceremonial awarding of the financial assistance certificates led by the tourism chief at the Wright Park Gazebo in Baguio City on Monday.  “I c...

December 18, 2020 | 7:00 pm Font Size AAA The budget for programs supporting displaced workers increased by close to 100%, from P9.93 billion under the National Expenditure Program to P19.036 billion in the final version of the spending plan. -- PHILIPPINE STAR/EDD GUMBAN Workers affected by the disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic will continue to receive assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) next year as a result of the interventions made by Congress in the proposed 2021 national budget, a senator said Friday. Senator Juan Edgardo M. Angara, chairm...

Published December 18, 2020, 11:52 AM Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny’’ M. Angara today said workers affected by the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic would continue to receive assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) next year as a result of the interventions made by Congress in the proposed 2021 P4.5 trillion national budget. Sen. Sonny Angara (Alexis Nueva España/Senate PRIB) Angara, chairman of the Senate finance committee, explained that members of Congress were all in agreement that the workers affected by the pandemic should continue to receive some fo...

Press Release Angara: Displaced workers will continue to receive assistance under the 2021 budget Workers affected by the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to receive assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) next year as a result of the interventions made by Congress in the 2021 national budget. Senator Sonny Angara, the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, said the members of Congress were all in agreement that the workers affected by the pandemic should continue to receive some form of assistance from the government in 2021 because many of them ...

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the extension of the validity of the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2) enables the DOLE to reach out and extend benefits to more workers. “We can now use our budgetary allocation even beyond December 19,” he said in a press briefing Wednesday. “We now have more time to implement the payout to our workers,” Bello added.  Bello earlier instructed labor officials to hasten the distribution of the P16.4 billion assistance allocated for the workers displaced by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic be...