Duterte OKs employment recovery plan

Duterte OKs employment recovery plan

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.

Vaccines for nurses? Palace says ‘why not?’

Vaccines for nurses? Palace says ‘why not?’

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.