DoLE urges employers to hire PWDs.
ILOILO CITY -- Department of Labor and Employment 6 (DoLE 6) Assistant Regional Director Crispin Dannug Jr. has urged employers in this city to help persons with disabilities (PWDs) become self-sufficient and productive partners by providing them employment opportunities. In an employers' forum conducted by DoLE last...

Board to bare C. Visayas wage increase next week.
CEBU CITY - After a month-long series of consultations in Central Visayas, officers of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) 7 said it will announce a new wage order in the first week of August. RTWPB Chairman and Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) 7...

Brion recommends presidential veto of legislated pay hike.
Byline: RAYMUND F. ANTONIO Labor and Employment Secretary Arturo Brion maintains his position to address the wage issue through the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs), saying he will recommend to President Arroyo to veto the legislated wage hike should it pass the Congress. ...

9,198 'retakers' pass nurse exam to qualify for US work; full list in Manila Bulletin, August 29, 2007.
Byline: RAYMUND F. ANTONIO The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) announced yesterday that 9,198 of the 13,338 nursing exam voluntary "retakers" passed this year's licensure exam, making them eligible to work in the United States. Labor and Employment Secretary Arturo Brion said these nursing...

Workers entitled to holiday pay on Election Day - DoLE.
Byline: RAYMUND F. ANTONIO The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) yesterday reminded employers that Monday, May 14, Election Day, is a special non-working day, and workers are entitled to get extra pay if they report for duty. Labor and Employment Secretary Arturo Brion said...

46 Ormoc firms stop operations due to losses.
Byline: RESTITUTO A. CAYUBIT TACLOBAN CITY - Forty-six agri-business companies in Ormoc City, 104 kilometers southwest from here, stopped operations from January to September of this year due to economic losses, according to the reports of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE), Regional Office 8, based...

DoLE says Nov. 1 and 2 are special non-working holidays.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) announced yesterday that Nov. 1 (All Saints' Day) and Nov. 2 (All Souls' Day) are special non-working holidays throughout the country. Labor and Employment Secretary Arturo D. Brion said that the President, by virtue of Proclamation No. 1211 issued on...

Workers reporting during holidays to get extra pay - DoLE.
Byline: RAYMUND F. ANTONIO Employees who will report for work during the All Saints' Day holidays are entitled to get extra pay, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) reiterated yesterday. Labor and Employment Secretary Arturo Brion reminded employers that Nov. 1 to 2 are...

12th National Seafarers Day.
THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) recently bared its plans to keep the Philippines' position as the No. 1 maritime manpower source of the world. In his report, DoLE Secretary Arturo D. Brion committed that the DoLE, specifically its attached agency the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority...

Special non-working day today; workers entitled to extra pay.
Byline: RAYMUND ANTONIO The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has reminded employers that Oct. 29, the day of Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) and Barangay elections, is a special non-working day and that workers are entitled to extra pay if they report for duty. DoLE Secretary...