QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 783)
To provide emergency employment, training with income support, entrepreneurship support, public works, and expanded conditional cash transfer coverage to save and create jobs for targeted vulnerable income groups as part of economic resiliency during the global economic crisis.
The middle class, middle-low income class, and the poorest of the poor.
Each agency must allocate one and a half percent (1.5%) of its Maintenance, Overhead and Operating Expense budgets for temporary employment for 180,000 employees for six (6) months.
One hundred eighty thousand (180,000) employees for six (6) months.
Surveys, census (e.g., DSWD), price monitoring (DTI), office and field work, and other activities identified in the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP).
Region IV-A and the Bicol provinces receive the largest share: 50,000 workers.
Cebu, Mactan Economic Zone, Leyte and Samar: 20,000; Subic and Clark Economic Zones, Pampanga, Tarlac, Bataan and Zambales: 20,000; CARAGA Region: 5,000.
It clarifies that the mandated distribution is far in excess of job losses.
TESDA is tasked to conduct training in in-demand skills, and the income support is set at half of the minimum wage.
Expenses of the workers for meals and transportation.
20,000 female workers from Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon, Camarines Provinces and Albay; 5,000 workers from Region III; 5,000 workers from Region VII; 5,000 workers from CARAGA; and 50,000 overseas Filipino workers (using acquired skills of experienced returning workers as training instructors).
To consolidate livelihood programs into a one-stop shop by creating an integrated Regional Livelihood Program Office in all regional centers to support micro enterprises and self-employment.
Livelihood programs of DOLE, DTI, DA, DOF, and Government-Owned and -Controlled Corporations.
To identify labor-intensive public works projects in poverty-stricken provinces to create volunteer jobs on honorarium or allowance basis; DPWH should provide opportunities for 250,000 workers over a six-month period.
It directs the coverage to be expanded to Regions such as CARAGA and Cordillera to cover low/no income families and avoid child labor, especially in manual mining intensive areas.
CARAGA and Cordillera.
It takes effect immediately.
It indicates no waiting period; agencies and offices should begin implementation right away upon issuance, subject to compliance with administrative and budgeting requirements stated in the EO.