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Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III (File photo) MANILA - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will be conducting large-scale inspections of establishments to ensure compliance of workplaces with health safety standards to warrant the further downgrade of the National Capital Region (NCR) from Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 1. In a virtual forum on Wednesday, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said they would want the region to be placed under the most relaxed alert level "for business and employment to survive". "During a meeting with senior officials, I told them to co...

MANILA - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to resume next week the payout of financial assistance to 50,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) chief Hans Leo Cacdac on Friday said Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello has ordered to release an initial PHP500 million to pay the applicants of the Abot-Kamay ang Pagtulong (AKAP), a one-off financial assistance given to OFWs worth PHP 10,000. "We're working on it now. We're working on the download. Very soon. My esti...

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The Department of Labor and Employment - Northern Mindanao (DOLE-10) on Friday said workers in areas affected by the Alert Level 3 or higher that was set by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) can avail of cash assistance. During an online media forum, DOLE-10 Director Alber Gutib said this is a one-time cash assistance of PHP5,000 under the agency's Covid-19 Adjustment Measures Program (CAMP) 3. He said CAMP 3 is to help the workers who were affected by permanent closures of the establishments and those who were retrenched as a result of the pandemic. However, the ass...

Labor Assistant Secretary Dominique Tutay (File photo) MANILA - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Thursday said it will release an initial PHP130 million for the grant of cash assistance to some 25,000 workers in Alert Level 3 in some parts of the country. "Based on the data from our establishment report system, as of January 23, around 25,000 workers are affected by reason of permanent closure, retrenchment, and temporary closure. We will be downloading some funds amounting to around PHP130 million to be able to accommodate the initial 25,000 affected workers," Labor ...

Around 5,000 qualified beneficiaries of Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) Covid-19 Adjustment Measures Program (CAMP) will soon be getting their cash aid. Labor Assistant Secretary Dominique R. Tutay disclosed the said beneficiaries are among the 22,000 applications, which they have received since they started accepting applications for CAMP 2022…