THE Commission on Human Rights (CHR) welcomes the approval of the consolidated version of House Bill 8400 (HB 8400), or An Act Institutionalizing and Expanding the National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS) to a Jobs Creation Plan, and Senate Bill 2035 (SB 2035), or An Act Establishing the National Employment Master Plan or the Trabaho Para Sa Bayan Plan.

The consolidated bill is geared toward employment generation and job quality improvement in order to address the recovery of the labor market after the Covid-19 pandemic.