The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) emphasized its fiscal diligence on Modnay, Aug. 16 amid what an official described as "selective" news reporting of the Commission on Audit's (COA) 2020 audit report on the agency.
DOLE Director Rolly Francia (File photo/ Screengrab from Zoom meeting)
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has achieved another unfortunate milestone in terms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic's impact on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
Returning OFWs being interviewed at NAIA. (Ariel Fernandez/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) DOLE Information
Thee Bureau of Immigration (BI) has assured the thousands of returning Filipinos of continued and uninterrupted service at the country's International airports amid the persisting coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
(File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente sai
Published August 4, 2021, 3:45 PM
A Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) official has asked for the understanding of quarantine hotels that have been waiting on the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s (OWWA) payments in connection with the services they rendered to repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
DOLE Director Rolly Francia speaks during the agency’s Aug. 4, 2021 virtual press briefing. (Screengrab from Zoom meeting)
In a virtual press briefing Wednesday, Aug. 4, DOLE-Information and Publication Service (IPS) Director Rolly Francia confirmed reports that some hotels and accommodation facilities have stopped functioning as quarantine hotels over the delayed payments of OWWA.
Published August 4, 2021, 5:30 PM
Desperate times like the upcoming two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR) call for creative budgeting on the part of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), especially if it wants to give cash aid to displaced workers in a timely manner.
(File photo/ Screengrab from Zoom meeting)
DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III had bared plans to revive the agency’s one-time cash assistance program dubbed the COVID-19 Adjustment Measures Program or CAMP in order to allow for dole outs of P5,000 each to qualified workers from the formal sector.
In line with this, Bello wrote the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Tuesday, Aug. 3 to request for P2 billion that would be used for CAMP in time for the reimposition of ECQ in NCR or Metro Manila from Aug. 6 to 20. Earlier, Assistant Secretary Dominique Rubia-Tutay estimated that the number of workers in NCR who will be affected by the ECQ would reach 300,000 t