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Workers gain from new law, DOLE asserts

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Some 700,000 workers from the informal sector will benefit from the funds allocated to the Labor department under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2, an official said Thursday.

“For example, if the allocation to our displaced workers is P5 billion in the TUPAD program, we will have 700,000 beneficiaries,” Maria Karina Perida-Trayvilla, head of the department’s Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns, said in a briefing.

She also said more than 600,000 informal-sector workers had benefited from the program.

“Based on our data, a total of 604,901 have benefited from the program, and out of this around 423,511 were employed under the disinfection and sanitation programs in their houses. The bulk of the beneficiaries are from the National Capital Region,” Trayvilla said.

She says under the program, a beneficiary will be working for four hours a day for 15 days, and will be given a salary equivalent to the highest prevailing minimum wage in the region where the project is being implemented.

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“Applicants may go to their local government through the public employment service offices or to the nearest [Labor department] regional office to apply for the program,” Trayvilla said.

The TUPAD program is a community-based package of short-term wage employment assistance to ease the impact of calamities, disasters and pandemics on the workers in the informal economy. It is open to the workers who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic, as well as to the self-employed such as home-based workers and vendors.

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