The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said that the recently approved wage hike in Metro Manila and Western Visayas will be implemented on June 3 after the orders were confirmed by the National Wages and Productivity Commission.
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed Executive Order (EO) No. 140 adopting the National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS) as his administration’s master plan for boosting the labor market, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is proposing for the country to “safely reopen” businesses to solve the increasing unemployment rate.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) allocated an additional P65 million for contract tracing efforts of local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila.
According to Alice Visperas, director of the International Labor Affairs Bureau, the DOLE had requested Covid-19 vaccines from the UK and Germany and offered to ease the country’s limit on the overseas deployment of health workers set at 5,000 per year.