MANILA, Philippines – Around 375,000 workers displaced during the global financial crisis as well as new jobseekers got new jobs and alternative sources of livelihood in the first half of the year, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday.
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said the government, through the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP), invested P13 billion in public works and enterprise development to generate jobs.
“By providing emergency employment and funds for livelihood projects, CLEEP had helped its beneficiaries, mostly low-income workers including those in industries affected by the global crisis as well as displaced overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and out-of-school youths, cope with the crisis’ adverse effects,” Roque said.
Meanwhile, local recruiters welcomed the decision of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to close down 177 non-performing nursing schools, saying the move would reduce the growing number of unemployed nurses in the country.
The recruitment sector had been seeking the evaluation of over 1,000 nursing schools, which they claimed contributed to the surging number of graduates who could not find jobs. –Mayen Jamaylin (The Philippine Star)
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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