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MANILA, Philippines — The Division of Labor and Employment (Dole) on Tuesday stated it might roll out emergency and reemployment help to employees who shall be affected by the overall ban introduced by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos).
The year-end deadline given by Marcos to shut all Pogos will present Dole with a “window” to arrange and implement its “interventions,” Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma stated in an interview on dwFM.
Laguesma stated Dole’s emergency employment, abilities improve and retooling, coaching and employment facilitation packages shall be primarily based on the “profiling” to be carried out for Filipino employees straight employed by Pogos.
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The secretary stated that of the 79 “registered Pogos” in Metro Manila, 28 have thus far submitted the names of their staff.
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Primarily based on the preliminary profiling carried out on about 10,000 staff from the 28 Pogos, they might discover new jobs in info know-how (IT) and enterprise course of outsourcing (BPO) firms, he added.
It was not instantly clear why Dole’s depend of registered Metro Manila Pogos differed from that given by the chair of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor), who on Tuesday stated there have been solely 43 authorized Pogos remaining.
Requested if Pogos and web recreation licensees (IGL) are one and the identical, Laguesma stated that “primarily based on my understanding” of Marcos’ pronouncements, the 2 phrases are the identical since Pagcor had merely “rebranded” Pogos as IGLs.
In a separate interview on dzBB, Laguesma stated many Pogo staff have encoding abilities that are in demand within the IT sector, and that these with administrative and finance abilities may discover jobs in different firms.
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