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GOVERNMENT AID for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) amid a coronavirus pandemic has surpassed its limits, prompting the Labor department to seek more funds.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) will set up a center in Metro Manila to deal with the employment concerns of retrenched workers, including those laid off from ABS-CBN Corp., the Palace said on Thursday.

About 8,000 local jobs will be made available to returning overseas Filipino workers who lost their jobs amid a global health crisis, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE).

MORE than 16,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFW) are expected to come home this month amid a coronavirus pandemic, less than half of the original estimate after many of them failed to get cleared, according to the Labor department.

THE government has helped more than 81,000 overseas Filipinos affected by the global coronavirus pandemic, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE).

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said it will be able to make sure all stranded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) make it home before the deadline President Rodrigo R. Duterte set, with 19,000 out of 24,000 already brought home.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has ordered manning agencies to absorb the cost of quarantining seafarers.

A waste-to-energy project by a unit of Metro Pacific Investment Corp. (MPIC) with Dole Philippines, Inc. received the first tranche of subsidy, which is up to 50% of its qualified capital cost, from the Japanese government.

Over the month of March, MyKuya has created job opportunities for nearly 10,000 people. Their recent job fair alone saw about 1,000 jobseekers on the platform in under 45 minutes.

EMPLOYERS will no longer be required to submit their company payroll in order to avail of the government's cash assistance for workers affected by...

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is gearing up for the worst-case scenario of 1.8 million workers whose job status will be affected...

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) on Thursday announced the partial lifting of the total deployment ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Kuwait, which excludes household service workers.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has issued a warning against a fraudulent e-mail claiming to be associated with the agency and asking for cash donations.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has started inspecting establishments across the country to check for compliance in employing foreign nationals.

TWO OF 11 Filipino seafarers who have been reported abducted in two separate incidents in the West African countries of Benin and Togo have been verified, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) reported on Tuesday.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is allotting P5.5 million in emergency funds for around 500 workers of Star City who were displaced after a the fire razed the amusement park, it said in a statement.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) on Wednesday said it had revoked the licenses of two recruitment agencies for deploying two minors overseas.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is looking into GMA Network, Inc.’s compliance with occupational safety and health (OSH) standards, after veteran actor Eddie Garcia suffered a fatal injury on the set of a new TV series.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) will be hosting its annual Independence Day job fair on June 12 in various sites nationwide, offering 68,893 vacancies.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is preparing to send a team for the repatriation of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in violence-affected areas of Libya, as it ordered a total deployment ban of OFWs to that state.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) announced that they are preparing for the voluntary repatriation of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Libya, following escalating violence there, as reported by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

AFTER firing him in October last year, President Rodrigo R. Duterte has reappointed Joel B. Maglunsod to the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE).

THE Department of Labor and employment (DoLE) has lifted the suspension on the issuance of work permits for foreigners in Boracay, following the reopening of the island on Oct. 26 after a six-month rehabilitation.

MORE THAN 300,000 workers have been regularized this year, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) reported on Monday, citing its efforts as well as voluntary regulation by employers.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has issued guidelines on the hiring of Filipino teachers in the People’s Republic of China (PRoC).

THE Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) said it has teamed up with the labor department to create programs that will “enhance the employability” of young people.

THE labor department has issued guidelines for recruitment of care workers for the Technical Intern Training Program In Japan, including language proficiency standards.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) issued Labor Advisory No. 12 on Thursday, advising employers to pay their employees accordingly on August 21, a regular holiday falling on a special non-working holiday in observance of the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice or Eid al-Adha and Ninoy Aquino Day.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said it has suspended an escrow fund requirement for all foreign recruitment agencies (FRAs) seeking to deploy domestic workers to Kuwait amid fears the rule might be viewed as discriminatory.

DoLE to seek priority status for bill on security of tenure penalizing ‘endo’

A MAJOR employer association is negotiating with the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to confer regular status on 300,000 workers, matching DoLE’s target for 2018.

THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has been authorized to approve licenses of recruitment agencies that hire overseas Filipino workers (OFW), the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said on Friday.

A LABOR department official has called on displaced formal sector workers in Boracay to avail of the government’s emergency employment program.

The labor department will focus on inspecting economic zones, security agencies and television networks nationwide to check if these companies abide by general labor...

THE Labor department has issued an advisory on the leave entitlements of household workers under Republic Act 10361, or the Kasambahay law.

THE LABOR DEPARTMENT said that domestic workers will be deployed back to Kuwait once both countries agree on a standard employment contract.

“EIGHT REGIONS” have already submitted their recommendations for an increase in their minimum wage rates, Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello told reporters on Monday.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) plans to submit by next month a new list of companies engaging in illegal contractualization, including television “networks” and “hospitals.”

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in a statement said it encourages workers to report companies who violate the Anti-Age Discrimination Law.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) advised employers to pay their employees accordingly this Independence Day and Eid'l Fitr through Labor Advisory No.9. "For...

THE International Labor Organization (ILO) said the Philippines is moving forward both in terms of its compliance with international labor laws and resolving the issue of contractualization.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has sworn in 35 new labor inspectors as part of the agency's move to strengthen establishments' compliance...

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE), in a press briefing on Monday, disclosed a list of “companies engaged and suspected to be engaged...

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has named the companies that may have been guilty of labor-only contracting. In a list the agency submitted...

A work stoppage order remains in effect at Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines (HHIC) until it has improved its working conditions. The Department of...