Blas Fajardo Ople was a Filipino journalist and politician who held several high-ranking positions in the executive and legislative branches of the Philippine government,including as Senate President from 1999 to 2000,and as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2002 until his death. Perceived as a leftist-nationalist at the onset of his career in public service,Ople was,in his final years,a vocal supporter for allowing a limited United States military presence in the Philippines,and for American initiatives in the War on Terror including the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Land Bank of the Philippines,is a government-owned bank in the Philippines with a special focus on serving the needs of farmers and fishermen. While it provides the services of a universal bank,it is officially classified as a "specialized government bank" with a universal banking license.
The Department of Labor and Employment is one of the executive departments of the Philippine government mandated to formulate policies,implement programs and services,and serve as the policy-coordinating arm of the Executive Branch in the field of labor and employment. It is tasked with the enforcement of the provisions of the Labor Code.
Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers,people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020. Of these,female workers comprised a larger portion,making up 59.6 percent,or 1.06 million. However,this number declined to 405.62 thousand between 2019 and 2020.
Franklin Magtunao Drilon is a Filipino lawyer and former politician. He had the longest tenure in the Senate of the Philippines,having served four non-consecutive terms overall:from 1995 to 2007 and 2010 to 2022. He has served thrice as president of the Senate:in 2000,from 2001 to 2006,and from 2013 to 2016.
The Manuel L. Quezon University (MLQU) is a private,nonsectarian,coeducational basic and higher education institution in Diliman,Quezon City,Philippines. It is named after the second president of the Philippine Manuel L. Quezon.
Executive Schedule is the system of salaries given to the highest-ranked appointed officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government. The president of the United States appoints individuals to these positions,most with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. They include members of the president's Cabinet,several top-ranking officials of each executive department,the directors of some of the more prominent departmental and independent agencies,and several members of the Executive Office of the President.
Patricia Aragon Santo Tomas is a Filipino government official who previously served as Chairman of the Board of Development Bank of the Philippines from 2006 to 2009.
Maria Nieves R. Confesor,popularly known as Nieves Confesor,is the former Executive Director of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) TeaM Energy Center for Bridging Leadership.
Catalino Tiacho Macaraig Jr. was a Filipino politician who was the longest-serving Executive Secretary of President Corazon C. Aquino.
The labor migration policy of the Philippine government allows and encourages emigration. The Department of Foreign Affairs,which is one of the government's arms of emigration,grants Filipinos passports that allow entry to foreign countries. In 1952,the Philippine government formed the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) as the agency responsible for opening the benefits of the overseas employment program. In 1995,it enacted the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act in order to "institute the policies of overseas employment and establish a higher standard of protection and promotion of the welfare of migrant workers and their families and overseas Filipinos in distress." In 2022,the Department of Migrant Workers was formed,incorporating the POEA with its functions and mandate becoming the backbone of the new executive department.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration was an agency of the Government of the Philippines responsible for opening the benefits of the overseas employment program of the Philippines. It is the main government agency assigned to monitor and supervise overseas recruitment and manning agencies in the Philippines. The POEA's office is located at EDSA corner Ortigas Avenue,Mandaluyong,Philippines.
The Labor policy in the Philippines is specified mainly by the country's Labor Code of the Philippines and through other labor laws. They cover 38 million Filipinos who belong to the labor force and to some extent,as well as overseas workers. They aim to address Filipino workers’legal rights and their limitations with regard to the hiring process,working conditions,benefits,policymaking on labor within the company,activities,and relations with employees.
Arsenio Molina Balisacan is a Filipino economist and academician currently serving as the Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). Balisacan first served as the NEDA Secretary from May 2012 to January 2016 under the Benigno Aquino III administration. He then served under the Duterte administration as the Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission from February 1,2016 to June 30,2022. He was again appointed as NEDA Secretary under the Bongbong Marcos administration. During his first term in 2012,he concurrently served as NEDA Secretary and as Chairman of the Boards of the Philippine Statistics Authority,Philippine Institute for Development Studies,Philippine Center for Economic Development,and Public-Private Partnership Center.
Jesli Aquino Lapus is a former Congressman of Tarlac,former Secretary of Education and uncle of President Benigno Aquino III.
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport bullet-planting scandal,locally known as tanim-bala or laglag-bala,was a scandal in the Philippines that began in September 2015 and lasted until early 2016,in which airport security personnel at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Metro Manila were alleged to have planted bullets in the luggage of passengers in order to extort money from them. Victims of the alleged plot were generally Overseas Filipino Workers,but also included non-Filipinos such as foreign tourists.
Silvestre Hernando Bello III is a Filipino businessman and lawyer from Isabela,who served as the Secretary of the Philippines' Department of Labor and Employment,and concurrently Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process,under the Duterte administration. Bello was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to replace Rosalinda Baldoz in the secretaryship.
The Department of Migrant Workers is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the protection of the rights and promote the welfare of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and their families. The department was created under the Department of Migrant Workers Act that was signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on December 30,2021. The functions and mandate of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) will serve as the backbone of the department and absorbing the seven offices of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) namely the Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers' Affairs (OUMWA) of the DFA,Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO),International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB),National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO) and the National Maritime Polytechnic (NMP) of the DOLE. The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration will serve as its attached agency and the DMW Secretary will serve as the concurrent Chairperson of OWWA.
Bienvenido Estudillo Laguesma is a Filipino government official,lawyer and businessman who is currently the Secretary of Labor and Employment under the Marcos Jr. administration since June 30,2022.
