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MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the release of an additional P5 billion for the repatriation and assistance of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) displaced by the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Labor…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Department of Labor and Employement (DOLE) plans to create one million jobs in the provinces as part of the government’s recovery plan for post-coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak. “Tomorrow, we will observe Labor Day as…
CEBU CITY—The Department of Labor and Employment could resume the release of cash assistance to formal sector workers if it gets additional funds for the COVID Adjustment Measures Program (CAMP). Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III bared the…
CEBU CITY, Philippines —As the number of displaced workers breached the 1-million mark, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III urged anew big businesses to continue paying their workers who had been unable to work due to the extended…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Starting next week, the Department of Labor Employment (DOLE)-7 will no longer hold office during Friday as a precautionary measure against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). In Administrative Order No. 99-2020 issue by…
MANILA, Philippines – A female household worker who recently died in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has tested positive for coronavirus, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III confirmed Thursday. According to Bello, a previous report on the still-unidentified overseas…
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines will also ban the deployment of vacationing household service workers to Kuwait and not only new ones as initially announced, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said. “Initially, I was inclined to exempt…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named lawyer and civil servant Karlo Bello from Davao as commissioner. Bello took over the post vacated by Antonieta Fortuna-Ibe, whose seven-year term expired last March. The newest SEC Commissioner…
“MAKE me the Ombudsman.” This was the message, said in Filipino, of Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III to President Rodrigo Duterte as he admitted that he was vying for the soon-to-be-vacated Office of the Ombudsman. Bello disclosed…
LABOR Secretary Silvestre Bello III yesterday named hospitals in the country as the number one violators of labor laws. He said that more often than not, their workers are either underpaid or overworked, or both. Bello made…
MANILA — Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III declared on Tuesday a temporary deployment ban of overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) in Qatar after its neighboring countries severed ties and closed their borders with the kingdom. “Effective today, the…
A Cebu-based labor group is asking Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III to step down from his post for failing to address the contractualization in the country. More than 50 members of Bukluran…
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