The Department of Labor and Employment-7 has recently launched its Technical and Advisory Visit in a bid to guide and assist the micro-establishments to become compliant with the labor laws.
INFORMAL WORKERS. Photo shows the general merchandise business of the 57-member Casuntingan Informal Workers Association in Barangay Casuntingan, Mandaue City being patronized by the neighborhood. DOLE-7 Tri-City field office head Marites Mercado said the association received almost PHP1 million worth of jigs and materials to materialize their business plan, a store of basic commodities for the community. (Photo courtesy of DOLE-7) MANDAUE CITY, Cebu - A group of informal workers in this industrial city in Cebu province can now plot a marketing plan that could augment their income to support their families. The Casuntingan Informal Workers Association (CIWA), which has 57 members who worked as habal-habal (motorcycle taxi) drivers, laundry women, nannies, house helps or kasambahay, ambulant vendors, fish traders and manicurists designed their business plan that would launch general merchandise akin to a convenience store. The group said they were able to come up with a plan through the
(PNA file photo) CEBU CITY - Over 2,000 workers in Central Visayas benefited from the PHP44.6 million Single Entry Approach (SEnA) program of the Department of Labor (DOLE) for the whole year of 2022, an official said Friday. DOLE-7 OIC-Regional Director Lilia A. Estillore said the benefits were an offshoot of the settled requests for assistance (RFAs) filed by the workers under the SEna program. The months that registered the highest amount of monetary awards produced under SEnA included February with PHP5.6 million; November (PHP5.3 million); January (PHP4.9 million); September (PHP 4.3 million); and April (PHP4.2 million). "These accomplishments are credited to the settled requests for assistance or RFAs that were received and handled by the different field offices and divisions of DOLE-7. We have our Single Entry Assistance Desk Officers or SEADOs, who ensure the disposition of RFAs received not later than the 30 calendar days process cycle time," Estillore said. Among th