MANILA, Feb. 14 The labor department renewed its bid to free more than half a million children who are into child labor and its worst forms amid reports that cases of child labor spiked despite the restrictions due to the pandemic.
Atty. Ma. Karina Trayvilla, director of the Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns, said that while DOLE has yet to receive latest official data on the number of young Filipinos engaged in child labor, the government is nonetheless bent on removing about 630,000 of them from such condition by 2022.
“We understand that one of the root causes of child labor is poverty, but we are doubling our efforts to eliminate this. We have encountered difficulties in the implementation of the program due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but now we are ready to intensify the profiling of children in the country,” Trayvilla said.
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+ February 13, 2021 MORE than 50,000 children have been withdrawn from child labor, but the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is still far from achieving its target.
In a virtual press briefing, Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns (BWSC) Director Karen Trayvilla said 56,272 children have been withdrawn from child labor.
The target based on Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022, however, is to remove 630,000 children from child labor by 2022.
Trayvilla explained that the low success rate is due to the extensive process needed. The process of withdrawal is really lengthy. It takes us two years to do that, said Trayvilla. We need to closely monitor the provision of services to the children until the time we can say he/she has already withdrawn, she added.
Official Gazette / MANILA BULLETIN
“The SSS (Social Security System) has ECC for kasambahay…so for example if they contracted COVID they have daily income benefit of P480 per day up to 14 days plus cash assistance of P10,000 and medical reimbursement,” DoLE Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns (BWSC) Director Karen Trayvilla said during the “Laging Handa” forum.
“The testing of the kasambahay is covered by Philhealth provided they are a member,” Trayvilla added.
The Labor official said employers should take care of the hospital treatment especially if they didn’t enroll their kasambahay in the Social Security System and Philippine Health Insurance Corp.
Press Release
Senator Villar donates to DENR a modular office for joint monitoring team at protected area
Senator Cynthia Villar donated to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) a prefabricated modular structure to serve as the office/station of the joint monitoring team deployed to preserve and guard the grounds of the protected area Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape (UMRBPL), including the Masungi Georeserve, the award-winning conservation project site found within the said protected area(PA).
Usec. Edilberto Leonardo, the DENR Undersecretary for Special Concerns, appreciates Sen. Villar s donation as it is a welcome complement to DENR s action of forming a joint monitoring team, made up of DENR foresters, forest rangers, and pertinent units of PNP and AFP, who are deputized to guard and prevent illegal activities at the said PA. With the said physical structure, the deployed personnel will have a specific base where they could stay while on duty
Published January 11, 2021, 2:35 PM
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 4-A has expressed strong opposition to the illegal activities in Masungi Georeserve located within the Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape (UMBRPL) in Rizal province.
In a statement, DENR-Calabarzon, together with the DENR Office for Special Concerns, Environmental Protection and Enforcement Task Force, Rizal Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office, and Philippine National Police vowed to enforce intensified forest protection activities, such as continuous conduct of the Lawin Forest and Biodiversity Protection System, a web-based mobile application to patrol the area.
It also committed to enhance the National Greening Program (NGP) sites with continuous planting of indigenous tree species.