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ABOUT DOLE VISION “Every Filipino worker attains full, decent and productive employment” MISSION • To promote gainful employment opportunities; • To develop human resources; • To protect workers and promote their welfare; and • To maintain industrial peace. ORGANIZATION The DOLE has 10 agencies attached to it for program supervision and/or policy coordination, 6 Bureaus, 7 staff services, 16 regional offices, and 34 Philippine Overseas Labor Offices. It has a total manpower complement of 9,430. CLIENTS The DOLE serves 43.361 million1 workers comprising the Philippine labor force. Of this total, 40.998 million1 are employed while 2.363 million1 are unemployed. Outside the country, it serves 10.239 million2 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) comprising both the temporary and irregular workers. Sources of data: 1 Current Labor Statistics (July 2017 Issue) Philippine Statistics Authority 2 Commission on Filipinos Overseas (as of December 2013 data) CONTENTS LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT SECRETARY’S MESSAGE PERFORMANCE REPORT Ensure compliance with labor laws and standards, particularly the right 01 to security of tenure Enhance workers employability and competitiveness of micro, small and 05 medium enterprises to address unemployment and underemployment 13 Strengthen protection and security of Overseas Filipino Workers 21 Strengthen social protection for vulnerable workers 25 Ensure just, simplified, and expeditious resolution of all labor disputes Achieve a sound, dynamic, and stable industrial peace with free and 27 democratic participation of workers and employers in policy and decision-making processes affecting them Streamline business processes and made frontline services responsive to 31 the people’s needs FINANCIAL REPORT DIRECTORY LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE Republic of the Philippines Malacañang, Manila SIR, I am pleased to submit the Annual Report of the Department of Labor and Employment for 2016 pursuant to Section 43-46, Chapter 11, Book 1 of Executive Order No. 292. Respectfully yours, SILVESTRE H. BELLO III Secretary The Secretary’s Message To facilitate easier transactions with the Department, we have streamlined our frontline services and reduced the processing time to 72 hours. We have also established the One-Stop Service Centers for OFWs and the DOLE Hotline 1349 on a 24/7 operation. Together with the industry, academe, and civil society, we have laid down the blueprint for job generation, decent employment, and entrepreneurship in the next six years. Thus, to enable stronger convergence on employment creation and generation, we have forged a partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) called Trabaho, Negosyo, he past year saw the progress in Kabuhayan. Tpromoting gainful employment opportunities, developing the country’s Responding to the need to end “endo,” human resource, upholding the welfare and we used the full extent of our regulatory and protection of workers, and in enhancing a enforcement powers to strictly enforce the climate of industrial peace. law on security of tenure and stop practices that circumvent it, especially the labor-only While 2016 paved the way for transitions, contracting practice. our collective efforts may be summed up in the Eight-Point Labor and Employment We have reinvigorated our inter-agency Agenda we have set forth under the Duterte task force on illegal recruitment, particularly to administration. investigate and prosecute erring recruitment The Secretary’s Message agencies for the protection and welfare of our voice and representation in tripartite bodies. OFWs. We have also promoted conciliation- On-site, we continue to strengthen and mediation as an effective alternative dispute expand our capacity to deliver services through resolution mechanism to provide labor justice the Philippine Overseas Labor Offices which in a speedy and impartial manner. are working closely with their counterpart consular offices. But a lot has yet to be done. Complementing these key actions is a We will be relentless in doing our share strong reintegration program for OFWs and in moving this nation forward by enabling their families. every Filipino worker to attain full, decent, and productive employment. The Department has also implemented social protection programs geared towards providing vulnerable informal sector workers immediate relief and buffer against lost income through livelihood and emergency employment. Moreover, we have pursued measures to promote a more inclusive social dialogue by making the expansion of representation in tripartite bodies a reality. The aim is to ensure that formal sector workers, informal sector workers, migrant workers, women workers, public sector workers, and the youth have SILVESTRE H. BELLO III Secretary “We should be guided by three principles. First, we should always stand for balance in employee-employer relationships. Second, we should always support the creation of decent work opportunities, knowing fully well that to make rights at work effective in law and in practice, there must, first of all, be decent work. And third, to make the first two principles realizable, we have to recognize and nurture the rights of workers to participate in policy and decision making processes directly affecting them and of employers to reasonable returns on investments and to expansion and growth. With these principles in mind, we should be ready to discharge our functions as enabler for work creation and protector of workers’ rights.“ – SECRETARY SILVESTRE H. BELLO III 37th National Conference of Employers 13 July 2016 DOLE 2016 PERFORMANCE REPORT 1 AGENDA 1 ENSURE COMPLIANCE TO LABOR LAWS AND STANDARDS, PARTICULARLY THE RIGHT TO SECURITY OF TENURE To protect and respect all rights at work as a precondition for promoting decent work, DOLE strictly enforced compliance with labor laws and standards through its labor inspection system. With the President’s directive to stop endo, 3,665 30,690 DOLE used the full extent of its regulatory and regularized workers regularized workers resulting from through enforcement powers to ensure job security at labor inspection voluntary regularization workplaces and prevent illicit practices like labor- only contracting specially in identified priority industries. August - December From August - December 2016, a total of 34,355 2016 workers have been regularized. Of this figure, 30,690 were regularized through voluntary 34,355 regularization while 3,665 were regularized as a regularized result of labor inspection. workers establishments were inspected by the DOLE covering 60, 376 2.275-M workers in 2016 70% 85% 71% 86% GENERAL LABOR MINIMUM WAGE OCCUPATIONAL SOCIAL WELFARE STANDARDS (GLS) SAFETY AND HEALTH BENEFITS (SSS, Pag-IBIG, PhilHealth) COMPLIANCE RATES COMPLIANCE STANDARDS PLANT LEVEL CORRECTIONS 17,385 156,506 ₱ 46.540-M establishments corrected workers benefitted amount of restitution DOLE | ANNUAL REPORT 2016 2 Occupational Safety and Health Program To further the aims of ensuring the safety and health of Filipino workers, the Occupational 1,828 Safety and Health Center (OSHC), Regional workers Basic Occupational Safety and Occupational Safety and Health Networks Health (BOSH) Training (OSHNets), and accredited Safety Training Organizations (STOs) joined hands in training a 1,016 total of 36,913 workers from 15,090 companies Construction Occupational Safety workers in the 40 hours mandatory OSH courses — Basic and Health (COSH) Training Occupational Safety and Health (BOSH) Training, Construction Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) Training, and other OSH-related courses 34,069 and learning sessions. workers Other OSH-related courses and learning sessions Workers Organization Development Program Scholarships were awarded to 97 union members and/or their dependents for the completion of 79 Bachelor’s Degree bachelor’s degree, vocational-technical courses, 1 Vocational-Technical Courses and master’s degree. The scholarship covers 17 Masteral Degree tuition, book allowance and a monthly stipend. TRAINING GRANTS 99 3,633 691 ₱ 6.909-M trainings funded workers benefited organizations benefited worth of training grants 3 Labor and Employment Education Services A total of 422,007 workers, employers, and including work ethics, values and skills and other students were provided with labor education matters on labor relations. particularly on their rights and responsibilities, 50,107 144,181 227,719 workers/employers workers students Labor Relations, Continuing Labor Labor Education for Human Relations and Education Seminars Graduating Students Productivity (LHP) (CLES) on specialized (LEGS) who will be Seminars at firm topics for organized/ future entrants to the level on workplace unorganized workers’ world of work through relationships to groups in the private orientations which increase productivity sector. focus on awareness on and enhance basic labor laws, rights competitiveness. and responsibilities of workers. An essential component of the LEES is the related concerns, whether local or overseas. e-Learning System that provides web-based Housed at the DOLE’s Labor Governance Learning learning and education on a wide array of topics Center (LGLC), it can be accessed by students, covering general labor standards, occupational workers, employers and the general public at safety and health standards, labor relations, http://elearning.dole.gov.ph. productivity and other labor and employment- DOLE | ANNUAL REPORT 2016 4 LABOR SUMMIT. As part of its effort to get the widest participation of workers