00:00Jobs, jobs, jobs, ad nauseum, the surefire cure-all filled to nearly all the country's economic woes and government's headaches.
00:09And the Department of Labor and Employment has made some headway toward getting people to work and at decent paying rates,
00:16care of multifair skills and upskilling programs and job fairs, which our Bienveni Manalo enumerates in this Dole year-end report.
00:24Sa Dole at sa DSWD, ipagpatuloy pa ninyo ang mga ganitong klaseng internship at pre-employment program para sa ating estudyante sa kolehyo.
00:39Manaking tulong ito sa kanilang habang sila ay nag-aaral. Manaking tulong ito sa bansa.
00:46That is the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. in his fourth State of the Nation adresa.
00:52The Department of Labor and Employment is trying to further improve programs designed to provide more opportunities to Filipinos in accordance with the Trabaho para sa Bayan Plan 2025-2034.
01:06More than 2,000 job fairs have been conceived and conducted by Dole throughout the Philippines,
01:11which over half a million applicants attended, and more than 70,000 were high on the spot.
01:17More than 100,000 students are benefiting from the Special Program for Employment of Students.
01:23Dole allocated more than 2 billion pesos for the government internship program, from which more than 70,000 students receive help.
01:31The Job Start Philippines program has helped more than 4,000 job seekers.
01:35Dole has allocated almost 4 million pesos to provide economic assistance, scholarship, skills training, and job placement assistance to more than 300 individuals.
01:47The Dole said although more than 600,000 employees lost their jobs in nearly 20,000 establishments,
01:54most of them were Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations Hub, or POGOS, the government totally shut down at the beginning of this year.
02:01The recorded employment rate in September 2025 is 1.3% higher than the pre-pandemic levels.
02:08The reported unemployment rate has decreased this year compared to 2019.
02:13In total, nearly 50 million Filipinos have had work this year, 400,000 more than in 2024.
02:21One last point, more than 2 million job seekers have found work care of peso in various parts of the Philippines.
02:27Ang aking tinutukoy ay yung katagang convergence. Pagsasama-sama, pagkatagpo, pagkakaisa, at pagsasanib ng pwersa ng mga departamento.
02:40Dahil halos lahat naman ng mga departamento ay mayroong kaugnayan sa usapin ng paggawa at panghanap buhay.
02:46Just recently, the President issued Executive Order No. 97, or the Omnibus Guidelines on the Exercise of Freedom of Association and Civil Liberties.
02:56It is aimed to strengthen the right of every worker to freely join unions and enhance freedom of association.
03:04The Dole and the Commission on Human Rights also signed an agreement on the implementation of a labor, intervention, financial and economic or life assistance program
03:12that will help employees and their families who are victims of labor rights violations.
03:17More than 6,000 union members and officers received specialized training, while more than 300 individuals were awarded scholarship grants under the WODP.
03:28Today, there are more than 1,000 existing collective bargaining agreements covering more than 300,000 workers.
03:34This is 8.7 percent higher than the CBA registration in the third part of the 2024.
03:40The manufacturing industry leads in union activity with almost 10,000 unions with over 800,000 members.
03:49They also have the highest CBA.
03:51Sa isang bagong Pilipinas, paglilingkod at servisyong maayos, matapat, mabilis, walang bahid at inklusibo,
04:01paasahan ng mamamayang Pilipino mula sa kagawaran ng paggawa at empleyo.
04:06Dole recently released Labor Advisory No. 15 Series of 2025 promoting labor management preparedness
04:13and reminding employers of their obligations to employees during the disasters.
04:19This is also part of the Intensified Labor Inspection Program.
04:23The agency has allocated over 2 billion pesos in funds for this,
04:27and over 800,000 workers throughout the country have been assisted.
04:31Based on the Dole status, there has also been an increase in general labor standard compliance
04:37as well as occupational safety and health standard abidance.
04:42BN Manalo from the National TV Network for a New and Better Philippines.
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