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Download (PDF) photo by POLO-Bahrain OSHC RO-5 screengrab photo by DOLE RO-8 Biliran Field Office photo by DOLE RO-7 OVERSEAS AGENCIES THE REGIONS GOOD NEWS Pinays get the OSHC defers Biliran town gets Siquijor most in kindness physical trainings big tailor dreams fisherman P5 P6 P7 gets aid P8 Congress sets lifeline for jobless THE labor department is throwing its full support to an economic stimulus package being prepared by Congress to fire up the country’s economy that has been made languid by the impact of the corona pandemic. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello has expressed full support 'OUR APOLOGIES' for the early approval in Congress of the economic stimulus plan especially since it includes a billion- BELLO TAKES CUDGELS FOR SNAGS peso aid package for Filipino workers that IN SEND OFFS OF STRANDED RETURNEES have been displaced or left jobless by the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Taskforce The economic stimulus measure, sponsored by to speed up Albay representative Joey Salceda and Marikina representative Stella home trips Quimbo, includes a P155 LABOR Secretary Silvestre billion wage subsidy Bello has created two rapid and “cash for work” action units to help expedite under the DOLE-Tulong the movement of overseas Panghanapbuhay sa Filipino workers from various Ating Disadvantaged/ quarantine facilities to their Displaced Workers respective home destinations, (TUPAD) program. and facilitate the speedy Labor Secretary processing of outbound Silvestre Bello III said the workers. passage of the stimulus The labor secretary measure will enable the ordered the designation of government to sustain its additional personnel from wage subsidy program to DOLE’s regional and attached displaced workers which agencies to beef up and man is a critical component the manpower requirement of in warding off the grave the taskforce and ensure the impacts of a depressed smooth land and air transport OWWA Quarantine Operations screengrab economy. and monitoring of OFWs from DOLE has also various quarantine facilities proposed inclusion in HOME-BOUND STRANDED OFWs. Through the government’s intensified implementation of its “Hatid Probinsya” Program, to their respective home the proposed measure more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) stranded in different quarantine facilities continue to arrive at the Ninoy Aquino destinations. International Airport for their scheduled flights to their respective home destinations. the Barangay Emergency The move came following Employment Program a directive from President (BEEP) for workers Duterte to immediately send P3 TUPAD seen to reach 1M informal workers home all OFWs who tested negative for COVID-19 IN A show of nimble policy government’s emergency Panghanapbuhay sa Ating conducted by the Philippine action, the Department of employment program as Disadvantaged/ Displaced Coast Guard and the Red Labor and Employment the country reels from the Workers (TUPAD) program Cross. (DOLE) has shifted some of debilitating effects of theas a post-COVID intervention As of this month, around Stranded its programs to help man the COVID-19 pandemic, the measure to help informal 24,000 OFWs were in govern- trenches in government’s fight labor department reported. sector workers recover from ment quarantine facilities fol- OFWs near to contain the spread of the When the pandemic economic displacement and lowing the government’s strict deadly corona pandemic. hit the country, Labor loss of income following a quarantine protocols for re- Close to a million workers Secretary Silvestre Bello III countrywide quarantine to turning OFWs. 100K mark in the informal economy immediately ordered the arrest the spread of the virus. In a related development, P3 are set to benefit fromimplementation the of the Tulong P3 P2 2 May 2020 Over 1M workers get aid in battle vs pandemic THE labor department said it international lockdowns. Of the has extended cash assistance to 1.5 billion DOLE-AKAP fund, more than 1 million workers in about P1.05 billion have already both the formal and informal been disbursed to an estimated sectors, including overseas 150,000 OFWs beneficiaries. Filipino workers, as it winds up It said the department its social amelioration programs would need additional P2 to help cushion the impact of billion in emergency funds to the COVID-19 pandemic. be able to service a significant In its report to the president, portion of the 368,703 OFWs photo by Dodong Echavez, IPS the labor department said who had sought the cash aid as its assistance programs had of May 5. DOLE CRISIS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. In its commitment to safely bring home OFWs who were virtually locked up in various quarantine facilities over an extended period of time, the Department of Labor and Employment created a Crisis benefitted 1,059,387 workers Also for the same period, Management Committee that will monitor the affected OFWs onsite and their repatriation in the country. Labor Chief Silvestre with a disbursement amounting DOLE said a total of 618,722 Bello III led the launch of the Command Center that will serve as a repository of data and information on the volume of OFWs to P4.44 billion. The aid amount formal sector workers from being repatriated. This will be manned by the DOLE Crisis Management team created to guide the Department in the formulation was taken from its regular 31,972 micro, small and medium of proactive measures and policies in dealing with repatriation, reintegration, and assistance to OFWs who have been profiled budget and a separate P1.05 enterprises were extended the even before their return to the country. billion in emergency fund. P5,000 cash assistance under It said it has concluded CAMP. DOLE spent P3.093 the COVID-19 Adjustment billion from its 2020 budget Measures Program (CAMP) and for the one-time assistance the Tulong Panghanapbuhay program. An additional 35,723 sa Ating Disadvantaged/ workers are expected to OUR APOLOGIES Displaced Workers, Barangay benefit from the cash aid as the Ko Bahay Ko (TUPAD CAMP program wraps up its by Althea Louise D. Majan center that will attend solelywill employ to the system and #BKBK) program as part of operations until this month. the concerns of our kababayans provide information on OFWs the government’s response to Under the TUPAD BKBK LABOR Secretary Silvestre who have been affected by thedisplaced by the pandemic to mitigate the adverse economic program, meanwhile, DOLE Bello III has expressed regret in pandemic,” Bello said. help the government determine effects of the health emergency said 337,198 workers in the the departmental imbroglio that The labor secretary said and immediately provide the on the low-income workers. informal sector benefitedhad stranded a large number of that the command center will kind of support they need once The department’s remaining from the 10-day emergency overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) centralize all concerns pertaining they land at the country’s ports,” program is the cash aid for employment and were paid the in Metro Manila following to the assistance and repatriation Bello said. OFWs under its DOLE Abot minimum wage prevailing in government’s imposition of strict of the OFWs as well as assist The tracker can facilitate the Kamay Ang Pagtulong (DOLE- their respective areas. quarantine measures. the Inter-agency Task Force vs identification and classification AKAP) Program, which is also Some P1.348 billion of the This month, around 24,000 COVID-19 in instituting the of arriving OFWs in various nearing completion with about department’s regular budget OFWs were still confined mandatedin health protocols. ways and substantially help in 74 percent of the targeted OFW- were disbursed to finance severalthe government quarantine To be manned by personnel streamlining arrivals at airports beneficiaries already qualified program. centers even after reportedly from DOLE, the Overseas and ports, as well as ensure the for the release of the one-time The emergency work stints complying with the 14-day Workers Welfare Administration conduct of an organized system P10,000 or $200 cash assistance. involved the disinfection and arrival quarantine and health (OWWA),and the Philippine of health protocols for returning DOLE said 103,467 sanitation of the beneficiaries’protocols imposed by the Inter- Overseas Employment OFWs, such as health checks, OFWs were already listed homes and barangays in Agency Task Force Against Administration (POEA), the swabs, and rapid transport to as beneficiaries of the conformityAKAP with current health COVID-19. command center will employ hotels or their provinces. Program representing protocols set by government “We apologize for the DOLE’s vast domestic and He added that the unit will displaced workers onsite and to help contain the spread of anxiety and discomfort that the international labor network and also map out both the volume of use an extensive, real-time, OFW inbound and outbound OFWs, those repatriated or stranded COVID-19 among Filipino unwarranted suffering may have tracker to track down the influx or those that are already being in their host countries due to communities. caused our dear OFWs, all 24,000, or so, of them,” Bello said. of Pinoy workers and provide deployed to host countries Bello made the statement in critical inputs to the IATF as it already opened to foreign the wake of President Rodrigo streamlines the institution of nationals. Duterte’s order for the IATF to health protocols on all returning “This is part of our speed up the send offs of theOFWs. commitment to bring home safely stranded overseas workers. “We have a vast OFW data our beloved OFWs who had been “Even if DOLE’s role is just to and tracking system and this affected by the virus including house our OFWs in our designated will be used by the IATF in those whose returns had been holding establishments, I’ll say implementing a smooth and snagged by international locked sorry for all of us in government organized way of checking and downs,” he said.
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