PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte has signed an executive order directing the government to prepare a strategy to effect a workforce recovery.
Executive Order No. 140 creates a National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS) task force, which will implement the government’s plan to restore employment until 2022.
The recovery plan, which is anchored on the Updated Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022, seeks to create a policy environment that encourages the generation of and improved access to employment, as well as livelihood and training opportunities.
The plan also seeks to improve worker employability, wellness, and productivity and expand support to current and emerging businesses.
The NERS task force is to be chaired by the Trade Secretary, with the Labor Secretary and the Director General of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority as co-chairs.
Its members include representatives from the Departments of Social Welfare and Development, Transportation, Tourism, Public Works and Highways, Science and Technology, Agriculture, Agrarian Reform, Interior and Local Government, Information and Communications Technology, Environment and Natural Resources, Education, Finance, and Budget and Management.
The order directs the task force’s member-agencies to conduct a joint evaluation of the policies and effectiveness of the recovery plan every three months.
The task force is to submit to the Office of the President periodic reports on the results of the joint evaluations and the implementation of the recovery plan.
Funding to implement the program is to be “charged against available appropriations of Task Force member-agencies.”
“Subsequent funding requirements will be included in the respective budget proposals of the member-agencies, subject to the usual budget preparation process,” it said.
The unemployment rate rose to 8.7% in April as lockdowns were enforced in various parts of the country to curb a surge in coronavirus infections. — Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza
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
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