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MANILA, Philippines — The Division of Labor and Employment (Dole) on Tuesday mentioned it will roll out emergency and reemployment help to staff who might 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 organize and implement its “interventions,” Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma mentioned in an interview on dwFM.
Laguesma mentioned Dole’s emergency employment, abilities improve and retooling, coaching and employment facilitation packages might be based mostly on the “profiling” to be carried out for Filipino staff straight employed by Pogos.
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The secretary mentioned that of the 79 “registered Pogos” in Metro Manila, 28 have up to now 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 may discover new jobs in info know-how (IT) and enterprise course of outsourcing (BPO) corporations, 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 mentioned there have been solely 43 authorized Pogos remaining.
Requested if Pogos and web recreation licensees (IGL) are one and the identical, Laguesma mentioned that “based mostly 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 mentioned many Pogo staff have encoding abilities that are in demand within the IT sector, and that these with administrative and finance abilities may additionally discover jobs in different corporations.
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