DoLE hires 14K informal sector workers

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) will provide temporary employment initially to 14,000 disadvantaged workers nationwide under its Tupad or Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged Workers Program.

Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said on Wednesday that the DoLE allocated an initial P144 million for Tupad beneficiaries, including farmers, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, and other climate- and disaster-vulnerable families.