Extension of Voters Registration
COMELEC has approved the extension of voters’ registration from October 9 to 31, 2021, according to its Chairman, Sher...
Oct 02, 2021 • < 1 min Read
Government Updates
Son From Romblon Catches ‘Other’ Fish In The Sea
Hopes are high for a son from Romblon who has already started working at the sea. But little did he know that he would b...
Cyrine Rongco in Government Updates
Aug 21, 2021 • 4 min Read
A True ‘Bread’ Winner: Son Kneads Way to Success
With a goal in mind, an ALS (Alternative Learning System) student from Marinduque works his way to finishing school and ...
Cyrine Rongco in Government Updates
Aug 09, 2021 • 5 min Read
Walking ‘Extra’: Inan Keeps On Track To His Dream
For a 19-year old child from Occidental Mindoro, with or without disabilities, one should not stop in achieving a dream....
Cyrine Rongco in Government Updates
Aug 02, 2021 • 5 min Read
4Ps Child Continues Journey to Possibilities
The 17-year-old child from Oriental Mindoro realized that there is no easy path to success. But with perseverance and de...
Jun 11, 2021 • 4 min Read
Feet and Feat: Mangyan Parent Leader Moves Mountain for Her Community
With courage and determination, a Mangyan Parent Leader from Bansud, Oriental Mindoro showed that no mountain is higher ...
Cyrine Rongco in Government Updates
Apr 06, 2021 • 4 min Read
‘Man-Toy’ to Remember: Marecar Gives Back to Community
Filled with passion, a Social Worker from Brooke’s Point, Palawan has proven that the virus cannot stop a heart who ha...
Cyrine Rongco in Government Updates
Mar 15, 2021 • 5 min Read
Cultivating Kindness: All Possible for Ate Arlyn
Despite the limitations brought by the spread of COVID-19, no virus can stop a health worker from Baco, Marinduque in fu...
Cyrine Rongco in Government Updates
Mar 04, 2021 • 4 min Read
PH-UAE sign historic, new labor accord; deployment resumes March 31
The Philippines and the United Arab Emirates today reached a historic agreement giving greater protection to Filipino ho...
Mar 03, 2021 • 2 min Read
Higher Pay for Pinoy Workers on Feb Holidays
Private sector workers who will work during the declared holidays this February are set to receive higher pays, Labor Se...
Feb 10, 2021 • 1 min Read
ECC: Funds for Workers’ Benefits Remain Available
Funds to pay for claims for employees’ compensation benefits for all workers in the public and private sectors who suf...
Jan 09, 2021 • 2 min Read
Be wary of FB pages promising cash, jobs – DOLE
The labor department has warned the public against bogus Facebook pages promising cash or prizes in exchange for likes a...
Jan 08, 2021 • 1 min Read
TUPAD pays P4.5B to nearly 1 million workers
The government’s flagship cash-for-work program has provided emergency employment to close to one million workers and ...
Dec 29, 2020 • 2 min Read
The Future of the Cuyonon Culture
Despite modernization, hopes are high in preserving the Cuyonon culture for a 16-year old child from Brgy. Tanglaw, Puer...
Cyrine Rongco in Government Updates
Oct 27, 2020 • 4 min Read
NLRC shortens conciliation-mediation process
The National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) in the National Capital Region (NCR) has bared new rules for the settleme...
Oct 24, 2020 • 1 min Read
Livelihood bikes for displaced workers set
In an effort to ease unemployment, the labor department will be giving out free bicycles for livelihood to pandemic disp...
Oct 23, 2020 • 1 min Read
DOLE monitors Covid cases overseas; assures aid to OFWs
The government continues to extend assistance to Filipino migrant workers infected with the coronavirus while working in...
Sep 29, 2020 • 2 min Read
Labor education now accessible online
Learning about labor rights and responsibilities has been made more accessible online through the Labor and Em...
Sep 28, 2020 • 1 min Read
OFW acquitted of murder in KSA gets DOLE help
The labor department has assured assistance to an overseas Filipino worker who was recently repatriated after being acqu...
Sep 27, 2020 • 2 min Read
P1b educ subsidy for OFW school kids
More than 30,000 college students who are dependents of repatriated, displaced, and deceased overseas Filipino workers (...
Sep 26, 2020 • 2 min Read
Qatar junks kafala; benefits OFWs
The government of Qatar has abolished the “kafala” system in the hiring and employment of migrant workers, a move de...
Sep 23, 2020 • 2 min Read
PH seafarers one of the bravest in the world–Bello
Filipino seafarers are among the bravest in the world, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Sunday. Bello extolle...
Sep 21, 2020 • 2 min Read
Kyushu employers prefer Pinoy workers
Employers in the region of Kyushu, the southernmost and third largest island of Japan, prefer Filipino workers for their...
Sep 20, 2020 • 2 min Read
Livestock1 survivors coming home Saturday
Two survivors of the ill-fated M/V Gulf Livestock 1 that capsized off the turbulent waters of Japan will be home on Satu...
Sep 19, 2020 • 2 min Read
More Pinoy workers feted overseas
Filipino workers overseas continue to reap recognition and accolades for their exemplary industry and work ethics even i...
Sep 18, 2020 • 2 min Read
Bahrain resumes recruitment of HSWs; employers prefer Pinays
The Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) of the Kingdom of Bahrain announced that it has resumed the recruitment of ...
Sep 16, 2020 • 2 min Read
Big firms must provide shuttle services for workers – DOLE, DTI
Big companies or those with total assets of above 100 million pesos located inside special economic zones and other area...
Sep 14, 2020 • 3 min Read
OSHC: Free online training for MSME safety officers
The Occupational Safety and Health Center (OSHC) is offering a series of free online Basic Occupational Safety and Healt...
Sep 14, 2020 • 2 min Read
Free online courses set for Filipino seafarers
Filipino seafarers can now access maritime courses being offered by the government for free, the labor department said o...
Sep 13, 2020 • 3 min Read
Getting Through the Storm
Mindoro is one of the most promising agricultural provinces in the country. Aside from being one of the major producers ...
Sep 10, 2020 • 3 min Read
Nanay Teting: A Mother of Many Ways
Teting Purma, 37, also known as Nanay Teting of Sitio Gaang, Brgy. Panaytayan in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, is known by...
Sep 09, 2020 • 3 min Read
Aid to kin of Pinoy crew set; 2nd survivor named
The government is extending all necessary assistance to the survivors and the families of the missing Filipino crew memb...
Sep 05, 2020 • 2 min Read
OFW batch from North Africa arrives Monday
A fresh batch of 277 distressed overseas Filipino workers from North Africa is arriving in Manila on Monday (June 22), t...
Jun 21, 2020 • 1 min Read
DOLE sees resurgence of BPOs
The labor department is seeing the resurgence of the business process outsourcing industry in the country in the coming ...
Jun 15, 2020 • 2 min Read
Bello relieves labor official in Dubai
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III has ordered the immediate suspension and swift investigation of a Philippine labor o...
Apr 18, 2020 • 1 min Read
OFWs displaced by COVID-19 to get P10k
A one-time financial assistance of 10 thousand pesos will be given to overseas Filipino workers whose employments were a...
Apr 08, 2020 • 3 min Read
200k workers get DOLE aid
Close to 200,000 workers had received cash assistance from the government’s assistance programs to mitigate the impact...
Apr 06, 2020 • 1 min Read
Local, overseas workers assured of gov’t assistance
Workers across the local and overseas employment sectors who have been affected by the COVID-19 global pandemic are assu...
Mar 26, 2020 • 2 min Read
3k job openings amid Covid 19
Amid the uncertainties brought into the Philippines by the global outbreak of Coronavirus 19 (CoVid 19), the Department ...
Mar 16, 2020 • 1 min Read
DOLE to assist stranded OFWs in Kuwait, Qatar due to COVID-19
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III assured assistance to around 1,000 stranded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Kuwa...
Mar 15, 2020 • 2 min Read
Adopt flexi work, employers told; workers allowed entry/exit in NCR during quarantine
The Department of Labor and Employment is urging business and industry not to close shop and to use “flexible work arr...
Mar 15, 2020 • 2 min Read
DOLE warns vs bogus job offers for Yukon, Canada
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III yesterday warned the public against bogus job offers overseas following reports rece...
Feb 28, 2020 • 2 min Read
DOLE calls on PNP, PEZA to ensure protection of ecozone workers’ rights
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) called on the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Economic Zone ...
Feb 20, 2020 • 2 min Read
DOLE mandates mental health program in workplaces
Underscoring the importance of promoting workers’ mental health, the labor department has mandated the adoption and im...
Feb 19, 2020 • 1 min Read
Rewards await best workers’ livelihood
In its bid to fete best practices in implementing the DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP), the labor department ha...
Feb 18, 2020 • 2 min Read
Partial lifting of deployment ban to Kuwait eyed
In light of the fruitful meeting between the Philippine labor delegation and Kuwaiti officials, the labor department is ...
Feb 07, 2020 • 3 min Read
Aid to OFWs affected by travel ban
The government is extending assistance to overseas Filipino workers affected by the temporary ban on the travel to China...
Feb 04, 2020 • 1 min Read
OFWs cautioned on nCoV
In the wake of the global alert on pneumonia caused by a new virus in China, the labor department urged all overseas Fil...
Feb 03, 2020 • 1 min Read
Department for OFW Should be Temporary— Senator Villanueva
Senator Joel Villanueva, chair of the Senate Labor Committee, said that a separate department for overseas Filipino work...
Jezreel Biscocho in Government Updates
Jan 31, 2020 • 1 min Read
Amid US-Iran tension
P600m set for repatriation, aid to ME workers The labor department has set aside an initial P600 million for the immedia...
Jan 10, 2020 • 2 min Read
SEC Revokes Robocash License
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it has revoked the license of financing firm Robocash Finance Corp., a...
Alberto Liberato in Government Updates
Dec 20, 2019 • 3 min Read
Holiday pay rules out
The labor department reminded private sector employers to properly pay their workers who will report for work during the...
Dec 18, 2019 • 2 min Read
More labor research needed for 4IR
Amid changes in the world of work brought by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the labor department has underscored the ...
Dec 10, 2019 • 2 min Read
22K Jobs at DOLE Anniversary
An initial 22,000 local and overseas employment opportunities are available to jobseekers at the seven job fair sites ac...
Dec 04, 2019 • 1 min Read
DOLE suspends labor inspection activities
To enable the labor department to dispose all pending labor standards cases and prepare the inspection program for 2020,...
Dec 03, 2019 • 1 min Read
CNO a requirement for alien permit
Foreign nationals who intend to work in the Philippines are now required to secure a Certificate of No Objection from th...
Nov 21, 2019 • 2 min Read
DOLE inspects firms employing aliens
Over 400 new labor inspectors were deployed in key areas to inspect establishments employing foreign nationals, and veri...
Nov 15, 2019 • 1 min Read
Be entrepreneurs, Bello tells OFWs
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III encouraged seafarers and other overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) alike to go back to ...
Nov 14, 2019 • 3 min Read
Working seniors, PWDs entitled to labor standards
The labor department has reminded employers in the private sector to provide their senior citizens and differently-abled...
Nov 13, 2019 • 2 min Read
DFA Warns Job Seekers vs Visit Visa, Brings Home 71 Distressed OFWs
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reiterates its warning to Filipinos seeking employment abroad against the use of...
Nov 09, 2019 • 1 min Read
Submit reports on hired OFWs, local, foreign employers told
Ang Pinoy shares the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) reiterations of policy directives for the protection ...
Nov 08, 2019 • 3 min Read
DFA Coordinates Efforts to Bring Home 32 Distressed Filipinos from Mexico, Egypt, Morocco
Ang Pinoy shares the government action for our foreign based Kababayans. 30 October 2019 – The Department of Foreign A...
Nov 03, 2019 • 1 min Read
DOLE Advisory on fake jobs
Ang Pinoy is sharing an advisory from the Department of Labor and Employment dated 13 October 2019 against online fraud ...
Oct 14, 2019 • 2 min Read
Saudi Arabia Regulation on Public Decency
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) released an advisory on 09 October reminding our Kababayans who will be travelli...
Oct 11, 2019 • 1 min Read
DOLE Advisory for Pinoys in Hong Kong
Ang Pinoy is sharing the 09 October 2019 Press Release of the Department of Labor and Employment for the information of ...
Oct 10, 2019 • 1 min Read
DFA Repatriates 158 OFWs from UAE, Warns vs Trafficking
Ambassador to the UAE Hjayceelyn M. Quintana said that a joint effort between the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi and th...
Oct 07, 2019 • 1 min Read
DOLE’s Statement on the Taiwan accident
The labor department extends its sympathies to the families of the Filipino workers who perished on board a fishing vess...
Oct 02, 2019 • 1 min Read
DFA bulletin on the tanker explosion in South Korea
The Department of Foreign Affairs news bulletin disclosed that the Stolt Groeland tanker exploded while docked in Usan, ...
Oct 01, 2019 • < 1 min Read
Online job fair for government vacancies slated in October
The Civil Service Commission (CSC), in partnership with JobStreet.com, will hold the Government Online Career Fair (GOCF...
Gilbert Francisco, Jr. in Government Updates
Sep 30, 2019 • 1 min Read
Recruiters face charges after deploying minors
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III has ordered the immediate suspension of two licensed recruitment agencies now facing...
Sep 26, 2019 • 1 min Read
DOLE reiterates call for human-centered labor agenda
A senior labor official last week renewed calls to invest in human resources as priority in preparing the Filipino workf...
Sep 25, 2019 • 1 min Read
1,500 Government Jobs Available on September 24
Want to work for the government? Then this one is for you. The Civil Service Commission (CSC) is holding its 2019 Govern...
Sep 18, 2019 • 1 min Read
Govt ready to evacuate OFWs in Saudi, if…
The government is ready to repatriate about 50,000 Filipino workers from areas affected by the weekend bombing of oil pl...
Sep 17, 2019 • 1 min Read
SEC Warns Public of Another Investment Scam
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warns the public against another investment scheme that it has sued in cour...
Sep 14, 2019 • 2 min Read
Canada Needs 2K Pinoy Workers Annually
Canada is opening its door to more skilled Filipino workers with the chance of bringing along their families. Yukon, a C...
Sep 10, 2019 • 2 min Read
Department of Tourism + Jollibee = EATS More Fun in the Philippines
2019 ushers in the biggest Philippine tourism campaign since It’s More Fun in the Philippines was launched in 2012. Th...
Sep 04, 2019 • 1 min Read
Government Cleanse Overseas Placement
Twenty-one foreign recruitment agencies and direct employers were blacklisted and 19 erring local recruitment firms were...
Aug 29, 2019 • 3 min Read
Distressed Workers From KSA Return Home
Displaced and Distressed Overseas Filipino Workers totaling to one hundred seventeen (117) were repatriated through the ...
Aug 29, 2019 • < 1 min Read