DOLE seeks P2.5B for third tranche of OFW cash aid
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Sunday said it needed an additional P2.5 billion to fund a third tranche of its financial assistance program for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
DOLE chief accuses ABS-CBN lawyers of ‘intellectual dishonesty’
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Thursday lashed out at lawyers of broadcasting giant ABS CBN for making claims that the company’s seasonal work arrangement for program employees received tacit approval from the Department of Labor and Employment.
DOLE launches tracking system for returning overseas workers
The Department of Labor and Employment announced Thursday the activation of a tracking system for all overseas Filipino workers intending to return to the Philippines during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bello: PSA jobless data not ‘factual’; only 69K Filipinos unemployed
The official definition of being “employed” is actually broad. It means a person has work and has done “any work even for one hour during the reference period for pay or profit, or work without pay on the farm or business enterprise operated by a member of the same household related by blood, marriage, or adoption.”