In pursuit of fair and just compensation for workers, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has released Advisory No. 06-24 outlining guidelines for proper compensation for the upcoming Regular Holiday on Labor Day, scheduled for May 1, 2024. According to the said advisory titled “Regular Holiday – May 1, 2024,” to ensure that employees … Read more
Philippines-China agreement on 100K Filipino English teachers to be deployed to China has been signed Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has confirmed that the agreement between the Chinese and Philippine government to send 100,000 Filipino English teachers in China has been signed. In previous weeks, this agreement was still on … Read more
One of the most sensitive issues that President-elect Duterte will be facing from the very moment that he sits down as the country’s 16th President is the continued existence or demise of job contractualization. There have been many attempts to abolish this antagonistic labor scheme, but it remained n effect until now. The outgoing administration … Read more
Incoming Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III told reporters in Davao City that the Duterte admin will no longer allow companies to employ more than 10 percent of the workforce under the controversial scheme called contractualization, the system wherein the workers never gets regularized. Sec. Bello clarified that the 10% requirements of … Read more
The Department of Labor and Employment under the leadership of incoming Secretary Silvestro Bello III urges all government agencies to take the lead in following the country’s labor laws. DOLE Sec. Bello stated that ending contractualization is one of his priority under the Duterte administration. The current congressional representative of 1-BAP party-list said in an … Read more