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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...

SunStar + December 18, 2020 THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has stopped accepting applications for financial assistance through its Covid-19 Adjustment Measures Program (Camp) under Republic Act 11494, or the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2). Labor Advisory 33 Series of 2020 stated that effective December 11, the agency shall cease to accept online applications for the P5,000 financial assistance under Camp. "The Department of Labor and Employment has already reached the target beneficiaries and is currently evaluating and processing payment of the rema...

(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...

Published December 14, 2020, 4:41 PM The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said affected establishments under the tourism sector that implemented Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAS) or Alternative Work Scheme (AWS) that resulted in a reduction or loss of regular income or wages for its employees for the duration of community quarantine may apply for their workers’ financial assistance.  (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The DOLE said this is for a more “inclusive implementation of the financial assistance and cash for work program for displaced workers in the tourism sector.” In their...