Calling all returning seafarers and their families who are interested in setting up their own business. The Department of Labor and Employment is inviting seafarers and their families to submit a business proposal and get a chance to win in a nationwide search initiated by DOLE-National Reintegration Center for OFWs, in partnership with the Integrated…
Three Overseas Filipino Workers recently received benefits and assistance from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Cordillera regional office in Baguio City. OWWA-CAR posted on its Facebook account three former OFWs who were the recent beneficiaries of cash, livelihood and medical assistance, as well as skills training assistance. Rosalina B. Casuga returned to Baguio City after working…
Small businesses in the Philippines have been suffering from a vicious cycle where they have to deal with unregistered loan sharks, also known as 5-6 lending system that charge exorbitant rates. Owners of micro-enterprises such as market vendors, sidewalk vendors and agriculture-based livelihood have little or no access or lack eligibility to loans often offered…
Seeing his future bleak while in the Philippines, Marvin Aguda joined the overseas Filipino worker bandwagon and left the country for Italy in 1999. And like other Filipinos seeking brighter future overseas, he had to take on different jobs: cleaner, caregiver, waiter. In 2002, he found a job as a dishwasher at Il Postino, where…
Seeing his future bleak while in the Philippines, Marvin Aguda joined the overseas Filipino worker bandwagon and left the country for Italy in 1999. And like other Filipinos seeking brighter future overseas, he had to take on different jobs: cleaner, caregiver, waiter. In 2002, he found a job as a dishwasher at Il Postino, where…
Not all employees remain with one employer until they retire. Some of them resign and find work under another employer, others get dismissed from their jobs or the company ceases to operate. The same is true with the status of the employer, as an SSS member, it is its duty to provide SSS with accurate…
Not all employees remain with one employer until they retire. Some of them resign and find work under another employer, others get dismissed from their jobs or the company ceases to operate. The same is true with the status of the employer, as an SSS member, it is its duty to provide SSS with accurate…
As a provider of pension for employees upon their retirement from work, SSS requires employers to enlist their workers and make prompt contribution counterpart to the fund. Before that can be accomplished, registration as an employer must be undertaken. There are different classification of employers and how each of them should register at SSS: Single…
As a provider of pension for employees upon their retirement from work, SSS requires employers to enlist their workers and make prompt contribution counterpart to the fund. Before that can be accomplished, registration as an employer must be undertaken. There are different classification of employers and how each of them should register at SSS: Single…
Any person who uses the services of another person in business, trade, industry or any undertaking or social, civic, professional, charitable and other non-profit organizations who hire the services of employees are classified as employers. As employers, they have duties and responsibilities to their employees besides complying with labor and Philippine laws such as prompt…