. + Administrative Code of 1987; 8759 RA Institutionalizing Act “An of all workers to self-organization, collective bargaining and negotiations, and peaceful and concerted activities including National a the right to strike in accordance with law; (c) ensure securit the through Network Service Facilitation Establishment of a Public Employment Service Office (PESO) in Every Province, Key City and other Strategic Areas throughout the Country”. implementing measures 109. To operationalize these constitutional policies and statutory mandates, DOLE has set up a number of key programs. First is the Public Employment Service Office (PESO), a multi-service facility which offers employment referral services, both local and overseas, and employment enhancement or employability enhancement trainings. PESOs serve as referral and information centers for the various services and programs of government, provide the public with adequate information on employment and the labor market situation, network with other PESOs within the region and nationwide for job exchange purposes, and bring government services closer to the public through active participation of local government units. Support programs for the PESO include undertakings such as job fairs, livelihood and self-employment bazaars, national manpower of employment for programs special registry, students, work appreciation program and youth weekend brigades, and livelihood and household workers centers. * RA 7323 “An Act to Help the Poor but Deserving Students Pursue their Education by Encouraging their Employment During Summer and/or Christmas Vacations through Incentives Granted to Employers, Allowing them to Pay only Sixty Percentum of their Salaries or Wages and the Forty Percentum throughe Education Vouchers to be paid by the Government, Prohibiting and Penalizing the Filing of Fraudulent or Fictitious Claims, and for Other Purposes”. *** of tenure, humane conditions of work and a living wage; (d) ensure workers’ participation in policy and decision-making processes affecting their rights and benefits; (e) promote the principle of shared responsibility between workers and employers and the praia! Section 2 (2), Article IX - B (The Civil Service Commission mandates be made that appointments in the civil service shall only according to merit and fitness to be determined, as far as practicable, and, except to positions which are policy-determining, primarily confidential. or highly technical, by competitive examination. ** Article 12 of the Code declares that it is the policy of the State: (a) to protect and maintain a state of full employment through improved manpower * Section 9, Article Il provides that the State “shall promote a and independence of the nation and free the people from Poverty through policies that provide adequate social Services, Prone living, and full employment, a rising an improved quality of life for all.” standard of Section 18, Article Il, the State “affirms labor as a primary social economic force” and undertakes to “protect the rights of workers and promote their welfare.” Section 12, Article XIl mandates the State to “promote the Pacrerential use of Filipino labor, domestic materials and locally produced goods, and adopt measures that help make them competitive.” Section 3, Article Xill mandates training, allocation and regulate the movement of workers; (e) to regulate the employment of aliens, including the establishment of a registration or work permit system; (f) to strengthen the network of public employment offices and nationalize the participation of the private sector in the recruitment and placement of workers, locally and overseas; full protection to labor, local and overseas, organized and Unorganized, and promote full rey nines and equality of employment opportunities for all; (b) guarantee the rights (g) to serve national development objectives; and (h) to insure careful selection of Filipino workers for overseas employment order to protect the good name of the Philippines. ***Article 14 of the Code mandates and Employment to organize and in the Secretary of Labor establish employment offices and a nationwide job clearance and information system to inform applicants registering with a particular employment office of job oppartunities in other parts of the country and abroad. The Secretary is also mandated to develop and organize a program that will facilitate occupational, industrial and geographical mobility of labor and provide assistance in the relocation of workers fram one area to another. Relevant provisions of the Administrative Code of 1987 - Section 17 of Title Vil Book V of said Code specifically mandates the Bureau of Local Employment of the Department of Labor and Employment, among others, to formulate policies, standards and procedures on productive manpower resources, development, utilization and allocation; as well as establish and administer machinery for the effective allocation of manpower resources for maximum employment and placement. Moreover, the Bureau is mandated to develop and maintain a responsive vocational uidance and testing system and develop and maintain a onan in ald of proper human resource allocation. It is likewise mandated to formulate employment programs designed to benefit disadvantaged groups and communities. Section 1, Chapter |, Sub-title A, Title |, Book V of the Administrative Code of 1987 declares as a policy that the State shall insure and promote the Constitutional mandate that appointments in the Civil Service shall be made only according to merit and fitness; that the Civil Service Commission, as the central personnel agency of the Government shall establish a career service, adopt measures to ee morale, efficiency, integrity, responsiveness, and courtesy in the civil service, strengthen the merit and rewards system, integrate all human resource development programs for all levels and ranks, and institutionalize a management climate conducive to public accountability; that public office is a public trust and public officers and employees must at all times be accountable the State to (a) provide and utilization; (b) to protect every citizen desiring to work locall or overseas by securing for him or her the best possible terms and conditions of employment; (c) to facilitate a free choice of available employment by persons seeking work in conformity with the national interest; (d) to facilitate abor market information just and dynamic social order that will ensure the prosperity use of voluntary modes in settling disputes; (f) recognize the right of labor to its just share in the fruits of production and the right of enterprises to nee returns of investments, and to expansion and growth. and that personnes functions shall be to the people; decentralized, delegating the corresponding authority to the departments, offices and agencies where such functions can be effectively performed. 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