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Unemployment
has been a perennial problem and remains a major challenge for the
Philippine society. It is everybody’s problem and responsibility.
Greater concertion of policies and programs would go a long way in
mobilizing the talent and capacity of each one for innovative new
forms of work and organization and for involvement into the
economic and social mainstream.
As of this
time, many Filipinos are still unemployed. This reflects the
inability of the labor market to provide employment that meets the
aspirations of job seekers for decent and rewarding work and that
contributes, in the eyes of the employers and administrators, to
the productivity of the enterprise, organization and economy at
large.
A complex
problem, poor capacities for generating employment have multiple
causes, in particular: high population and labor force, growth
rates and moderate economic growth; and a mismatch between the
skills and competencies of the workers and job finders and
requirements of potential employers.
Given these
huge problems being faced by employment-generating and
employment-providing industries including common workers and job
seekers, the need to secure each citizen with a potential source
of income to sustain their daily necessities is overwhelmingly
tantamount to their survival. Alongside the governmental thrusts
of engendering productive and globally-competitive citizens, it
must ensure that every single entity has the capacity to provide
and respond to economic challenges. This is generally understood
to be fundamental in coming up with more intricate economic
aspirations. It basically falls down foremost in fortifying and
concretizing the very foundation of one’s capability to provide.
Having recognized this evident shortcoming commonly overlooked by
concerned agencies, it is an imperative to intensify the
employment generating faculties of national and local governments.
In Calapan City, this is one prime issue to address and
categorically it has become obligatory to efficiently deliver
public employment service to its people through the City Public
Employment Service Office (City PESO). Upon the activation of the
City PESO on October 19, 2005, it has affirmed its commitment to
carry out full employment and secure equality of employment
opportunities for all Calapeños seeking jobs.
Presently, in its promising status of effectiveness, it vows to
uphold the City Government’s noble undertakings to not only offer
assistance to the community members but also to be considered as
one of the prime movers in propelling the country’s economic
wheel. Through this, the existing employment facilitation service
machinery of the government particularly at the local levels will
be strengthened and expanded. Under the present administration,
job creation and the ensuring of employment are even more
intensified in the flagship program, 1000 TRABAHO KADA TAON, being
included in the Executive Agenda of the City Government.
Public Employment Service Office (PESO)
The Public Employment Service Office or PESO is a non-fee charging
multi-employment service facility or entity established or
accredited pursuant to
Republic
Act No. 8759 otherwise known as the
PESO Act of
1999.
To carry out full employment and equality of employment
opportunities for all, and for this purpose, to strengthen and
expand the existing employment facilitation service machinery of
the government particularly at the local levels, Public Employment
Service Office, hereinafter referred to as “PESO” is established
in capital towns of provinces, key cities, and other strategic
areas which shall be community-based and maintained largely by
local government units (LGUs) and a number of non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) or community-based organizations (CBOs) and
state universities and colleges (SUCs). The PESOs are linked to
the regional offices of the Department of Labor and Employment
(DOLE) for coordination and technical supervision, and to the DOLE
central office, to constitute the national employment service
network.
Objectives
General Objective
Ensure the prompt, timely and efficient delivery of employment
service and provision of information on the other DOLE programs.
Specific Objectives
a)
Provide a venue where people could explore simultaneously various
employment options and actually seek assistance they prefer;
b)
Serve as referral and information center for the various services
and programs of DOLE and other government agencies present in the
area;
c)
Provide clients with adequate information on employment and labor
market situation in the area; and
d)
Network with other PESOs within the region on employment for job
exchange purposes.
Functions
a)
Encourage employers to submit to the PESO on a regular basis a
list of job vacancies in their respective establishments in order
to facilitate the exchange of labor market information services to
job seekers and employers by providing employment services to job
seeker, both for local and overseas employment, and recruitment
assistance to employers;
b)
Develop and administer testing and evaluation instruments for
effective job selection, training and counseling;
c)
Provide persons with entrepreneurship qualities access to the
various livelihood and self-employment programs offered by both
government and non-governmental organizations at the
provincial/city/municipal/barangay levels by undertaking referrals
for such programs;
d)
Undertake employability enhancement trainings/seminar for
jobseekers as well as those would like to change career or enhance
their employability. This function is presently supervised by
TESDA and conducted by other training;
e)
Provide employment and occupational counseling, career guidance,
mass motivation and values development activities;
f)
Conduct pre-employment counseling and orientation to prospective
local and overseas workers;
g)
Provide reintegration assistance services to returning Filipino
migrant workers; and
h)
Perform such functions as willfully carry out the objectives of
this Act.
Special Services
a)
Jobs Fairs
– these shall be conducted periodically all over the country to
bring together in one venue job seekers and employers for
immediate matching;
b)
Livelihood and Self-employment Bazaars
– these will give clients information on the array of livelihood
programs they choose to avail of, particularly in the rural areas;
c)
Special Credit Assistance for Placed Overseas Workers
– this type of assistance will enable poor but qualified
applicants to avail of opportunities for overseas employment;
d)
Special Program for Employment of Students and Out-of-School Youth
(SPESOS)
– this program shall endeavor to provide employment to deserving
students and out-of-school youths and out-of-school youths coming
from poor families during summer and/or Christmas vacations as
provided for under Republic Act No. 7323 and its implementing
rules, to enable them to pursue their education;
e)
Work Appreciation Program (WAP)
– this program aims to develop the values of work appreciation and
ethics by exposing the young to actual work situations;
f)
Workers Hiring for Infrastructure Projects (WHIP)
– this program is in pursuance of Republic Act No. 6685 which
requires construction companies, including the Department of
Public Works and Highways and contractor for government-funded
infrastructure projects, to hire thirty percent (30%) of skilled
and fifty percent (50%) of unskilled labor requirements from the
areas where the project is constructed/located; and
g)
Other programs/activities developed by DOLE to enhance provision
of employment assistance to PESO clients, particularly for special
groups of disadvantaged workers such as persons with disabilities
(PWDs) and displaced workers.
Clients
a)
Jobseekers
b)
Employers
c)
Students
d)
Out of School Youth
e)
Migratory workers
f)
Planners
g)
Researchers
h)
Labor Market Information Users
i)
Persons with Disabilities (PWDs)
j)
Returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)
k)
Displaced Workers
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