March 1, 2012:
The Department of Labor and Employment conducted a joint special meeting of the National Tripartite Advisory Committee on Decent Work, the Technical Working Group of National Government Agencies and Planning Officers at the DOLE Main Building in Intramuros, Manila. The said meeting aimed to discuss and agree on the terms of reference by which agency contributions toward the realization of the Phil. Development Plan (PDP) job creation objective will be examined and reported. There are twenty-nine (29) agencies tasked for this job creation.
The issue presented by Dir. Cynthia Cruz of the Institute of Labor Studies (ILS-DOLE) are the 7% unemployment rate or 2.814 million Filipinos and 19.3% underemployment rate or 7.163 million Filipinos in 2011. according to her, such issue is important for two reasons: 1) inclusive growth means employment growth, and 2) the point of departure for understanding and addressing constraints and challenges to inclusive growth is to put the human resource base as the core of all policy reform initiatives.
Under the PDP, it is identified which are accountable for employment outcomes: a) macroeconomic policy, b) infrastructur development, c) financial sector and capital mobilization, d) peace and security, and e) environment and natural resources. The agency initiatives are knowledge, standards, markets, policies and direct subsidies and such are about expand frontiers, change systems, deliver service and build community. These initiatives run as single entity directed, multi-identity directed and network directed.
The President of ALLWIES, Susanita Tesiorna, a member of the NTAC-Decent Work, appreciated the process as an expression of the convergence and integrated approach of the National Anti-Poverty Commission and responsive to the gap/s identified for the lack of access to social protection programs. She commented on the query of the representative of the DND that they are not job creators mentioning policy that following MC No. 20 on the purchase of military uniforms is such a big push to create employment in the ailing Phil. Garment Industries.
The Department of Labor and Employment conducted a joint special meeting of the National Tripartite Advisory Committee on Decent Work, the Technical Working Group of National Government Agencies and Planning Officers at the DOLE Main Building in Intramuros, Manila. The said meeting aimed to discuss and agree on the terms of reference by which agency contributions toward the realization of the Phil. Development Plan (PDP) job creation objective will be examined and reported. There are twenty-nine (29) agencies tasked for this job creation.
The issue presented by Dir. Cynthia Cruz of the Institute of Labor Studies (ILS-DOLE) are the 7% unemployment rate or 2.814 million Filipinos and 19.3% underemployment rate or 7.163 million Filipinos in 2011. according to her, such issue is important for two reasons: 1) inclusive growth means employment growth, and 2) the point of departure for understanding and addressing constraints and challenges to inclusive growth is to put the human resource base as the core of all policy reform initiatives.
Under the PDP, it is identified which are accountable for employment outcomes: a) macroeconomic policy, b) infrastructur development, c) financial sector and capital mobilization, d) peace and security, and e) environment and natural resources. The agency initiatives are knowledge, standards, markets, policies and direct subsidies and such are about expand frontiers, change systems, deliver service and build community. These initiatives run as single entity directed, multi-identity directed and network directed.
The President of ALLWIES, Susanita Tesiorna, a member of the NTAC-Decent Work, appreciated the process as an expression of the convergence and integrated approach of the National Anti-Poverty Commission and responsive to the gap/s identified for the lack of access to social protection programs. She commented on the query of the representative of the DND that they are not job creators mentioning policy that following MC No. 20 on the purchase of military uniforms is such a big push to create employment in the ailing Phil. Garment Industries.
