Mindanaotoday.com | More than 1K Oro DOLE-TUPAD workers receive P8.8M wages
Toledo urged the beneficiaries to put their wages in to good use. “Use wisely the wages you received from DOLE to buy household needs, food, medicine or tuition fees of your children especially that the school year has started.”
Moreover, 68-year old and Zone 9, Barangay Carmen beneficiary Florentino Alcantara, who works as a sikad-sikad driver at Brgy Macabalan said, “Thank you so much to DOLE on your TUPAD (program)! This is a big financial help to send my 10 children to school. It has been very difficult these days,” he said.
The pay-out was in collaboration with city’s Job Placement Bureau-Public Employment Service Office.
TUPAD Progam is a temporary emergency employment offered by DOLE under the DOLE Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (DILEEP) to the disadvantaged/displaced workers.
Beneficiaries are given an average of 10-90 days’ work compensated based on the prevailing minimum wage in the region. (DOLE-10)
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