The Department of Labor and Employment has earmarked P2.97 billion of its P8.12-billion budget for 2013 to skills training and retraining programs, to prepare the workforce for the ASEAN’s integration into a single market in 2015.
According to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, the amount will be allocated to the Technical Educational Skills Development Authority (TESDA), which will handle the training “to breach [the] jobs and skills mismatch of the Filipino workforce.”
TESDA will use the funds to increase the number of training programs to prepare workers for the industries that will be investing in the Philippines once integration occurs.
“We anticipate problems when foreign industries enter the Philippines in time for the ASEAN economic integration,” said Baldoz in a year-end press briefing at the DOLE office in Manila.
She said the department “ is preparing assistance to enterprises, specifically the micro, small and medium enterprises [MSMEs].”
The ASEAN economic integration is expected to bring investments to the country, not just from member economies but from dialogue partners Japan, China, the US and the European Union. — BM, GMA News
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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