43rd NCE: Reimagining the Future of Employment from Policies to Action

Newly appointed Department Secretaries: Trade Secretary Alfredo Pascual, Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma, NEDA Secretary Arsenio Balisacan, Tourism Secretary Ma. Esperanza Christina Garcia-Frasco, TESDA Director General Danilo Cruz, together with the DOTr Undersecretary for Planning and Project Development Atty. Timothy John Batan (presented on behalf of Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista), presented their respective agencies’ policies, plans, and actions at the 43rd National Conference of Employers (NCE) with the theme “Reimagining the Future of Employment: From Policies to Actions”.

This annual event brings together business executives, key government partners, foreign investors, chambers of commerce, and industry leaders to discuss important and developing employment issues, triangular partnerships, worker welfare, economic programs, and difficulties in the workplace. The conference addresses job creation, preservation, and transformation under the concept of “employment generation as a recovery strategy.”  Continue reading 43rd NCE: Reimagining the Future of Employment from Policies to Action

HOR supports new Administration Priorities and Gameplans for Economic Recovery 

Hon. Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives (HOR), presented the new Administration’s Economic Legislative Agenda: Priorities and Gameplans at the PCCI General Membership Meeting on 04 August 2022 at Makati Diamond Residences.

Speaker Romualdez highlighted several goals and initiatives of the New Administration, i.e., job creation, poverty reduction, food security, reduction of transport and logistics cost, as well as energy costs to families, addressing health concerns, strengthening of social protection programs in terms of face to face classes, enhance bureaucratic efficiency, and sound fiscal management.  Continue reading HOR supports new Administration Priorities and Gameplans for Economic Recovery 

ARTA issues the National Policy on Regulatory Management System (NPRMS)

ARTA crafted an issuance in relation to the National Policy on Regulatory Management System (NPRMS). The objective of such is to formulate a common framework for good regulatory practice for regulators at all stages of the regulatory life cycle.

The NPRMS will also lay down the implementing guidelines and procedures for the implementation of the Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) requirement pursuant to Sections 5 and 17 of Republic Act No. 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018. Continue reading ARTA issues the National Policy on Regulatory Management System (NPRMS)