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Responding to the ever changing need for gender equality in the workplace, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today said it will continue to evolve its policies and align itself to the demands of the Filipino workforce, especially on the need to address issues concerning gender and discrimination against women, lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBTs)

In a statement, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz said that “although much has been achieved in the country’s struggle for gender equality and fairness over the years, much, still has to be done. The pressing issue of discrimination against women and LGBTs has to be remedied.”

“This is in line with the 22-point labor and employment agenda of President Benigno Simeon C. AquinoIII that highlights the promotion and protection of workers’ rights,” the Labor Chief said, adding the Labor Department will…

Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz yesterday announced that the Department of Labor and Employment has rescued 58 more workers who were illegally recruited, trafficked, placed to an unlicensed recruitment agency, and forced to work in unsafe conditions as a result of its intensified campaign against illegal recruitment, trafficking in persons, and child labor.

This has brought to 64 the number of workers rescued by the Department since August 4, when six workers were rescued by the DOLE regional office No. 9 from a canning factory in Zamboanga City.

The rescue was brought about by the no nonsense implementation by the DOLE of its Labor Enforcement and Action Program, or LEAP, designed to pursue an intensive inspection strategy of establishments nationwide to ensure compliance with core labor standards.

The LEAP is in pursuit of President Aquino’s 22-point agenda on…

Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz today encouraged youths, students, and even fresh graduates, to take a closer look at in-demand occupations, and develop the corresponding skills to avail of these job opportunities found in the country’s major and emerging industries.

Baldoz, in giving the encouragement, said that students should take the appropriate, matching courses, or link up with the DOLE’s Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and its training centers nationwide for counseling, guidance, and training.

The labor chief said that this will address the prevailing job-skills mismatch and also provide young people broad opportunities and productive alternatives in the local economy in lieu of brain drain or disadvantageous migration of Filipino workers abroad.

Baldoz emphasized that the DOLE’s Project Jobs Fit has already identified the growing industries or so-called ”Key Employment Generators” in the Philippines in…

Exporters and other subscribing stakeholders can now access the World Trade Organization (WTO) Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Notification Alert Service for free at the Department of Trade and Industry-Bureau of Product Standards’ (DTI-BPS) website at www.bps.dti.gov.ph.

The WTO/TBT Alert Service is an online notification system that automatically updates target clients on proposed, new, and revised technical regulations and standards issued by WTO member-countries.

It sends e-mail notifications to subscribers, providing them the latest information on TBT policies and even giving them an opportunity to access, review, and comment on draft regulatory measures, standards, as well as administrative and legal requirements, proposed by WTO member countries before these come into law.

The system intends to help stakeholders better understand and meet standards and technical regulations of the products of their target markets and keep them abreast of changes…

The Department of Trade and Industry’s Bureau of Product Standards (DTI-BPS) Testing Center looks forward to receiving its ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for its Appliance Testing Laboratory with the positive assessment results reported by the Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC) Senior Manager and Team Leader Lee Ham Eng (seated 2nd from L) and Senior Engineer Bernice Lau Wee Nee, Technical Assessor from TUV SUD PSB Pte Ltd (seated far L). After the assessment’s closing meeting, DTI-Consumer Welfare Undersecretary Zenaida C. Maglaya (seated center) extends her appreciation to the SAC assessors and

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Project JobsFit: The DOLE 2020 Vision is the latest labor market study of the Department of Labor and Employment that highlights the in-demand and hard-to-fill occupations of the key industries that are projected to be the main source of employment growth in the country for the next ten years. The study is a product of extensive environmental scanning and consultation with key stakeholders nationwide. Please click the following advocacy materials, to download:

• Project JobsFit – Final Report
• List of In-Demand and Hard-to-Fill Occupations