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Hontiveros to job recovery task force: Protect workers, promote healthy, COVID-free workplaces
Senator Risa Hontiveros today urged the government s newly-created job recovery task force to help ensure that Filipino workers are protected and that their workplaces are healthy and COVID-free.
Malacañang recently announced the creation of the Inter-Agency Task Force on National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS), which is expected to address the record-high unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dapat siguraduhin na ligtas at hindi magiging COVID-19 hotspots ang mga opisina, pabrika at iba pang lugar ng trabaho sa bansa. Hopefully, more establishments can reopen and get back in business, without causing a spike in COVID-19 infections, Hontiveros said.
By JON VIKTOR D. CABUENAS, GMA News
Published February 11, 2021 12:03pm Majority of employed Filipinos anticipate looking for new job opportunities this year following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and the economy, a report released by the local unit of Singapore-based professional recruitment services firm Michael Page revealed. According to the Talent Trade 2021 Report, 67% of employed Filipinos expect to actively look for new employment opportunities in 2021 while another 31% are passively open to take on new roles. The report takes into consideration a survey of 12 Asia Pacific markets covering 5,500 businesses and 21,000 employees. Acquiring and retaining high potential talent will be crucial to enable companies to build sustainable operations to position for future growth, Olly Riches, managing director of Michael Page Philippines and Indonesia, said in an emailed statement.
MANILA – The National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS) Task Force chaired by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and co-chaired by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), which was signed last 5 February by several agencies, will be given a big boost by the recent bicameral approval of the game-changing Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act.
DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez said, “The landmark tax and incentives reform bill that we expect to be signed by the President is expected to bring in massive inflow of investments that will create more jobs, especially as we focus efforts in the National Employment Recovery during this period of the pandemic and beyond. The passing of CREATE will firm up the tax and incentive reforms that will make the investment climate significantly more attractive than the current tax and incentive regime.”
The Philippines has set an ambitious target of adding some 2.4 to 2.8 million jobs this year under the National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS), in an effort to address the 4.5 million jobless Filipinos reported in 2020 due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.