DoLE-NCR approves 16K separation certificates
The Department of Labor and Employment-National Capital Region (DoLE-NCR) office has approved and released 16,436 Certificate of Involuntary Separation as of 1 July.
According to the agency, 15,536 were requests from workers who were involuntarily separated by locally-based employers, while 900 were overseas Filipino workers (OFW).
The DoLE certificate is a requirement for application for payment of unemployment insurance or involuntary separation benefit (cash grant) in view of Social Security System (SSS) Circular 2009-011, or the Guidelines on the Payment of Unemployment Insurance or Involuntary Separation Benefit.
The circular covers employees, including house helpers (kasambahay) and OFW who were involuntarily separated from their jobs due to authorized causes, such as installation of labor-saving devices, redundancy, retrenchment or downsizing, closure or cessation of operation, or disease/illness of the employee whose continued employment is prohibited by law or is prejudicial to his or his co-employee’s health.
The regional office received a total of 30,157 requests for the separation certificate.
The DoLE certificate is a requirement for application for payment of unemployment insurance or involuntary separation benefit.
Meanwhile, it reported a total of 4,062 business establishments in NCR have complied with the Interim Guidelines on Workplace Prevention and Control of COVID-19.
This was out of 5,049 companies monitored by the DoLE regional office and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) from 8 June to 1 July, for an overall 80 percent compliance rate.
“When we say compliant, that means the employer has established health and safety practices in their workplaces amid the COVID-19 pandemic in accordance with the Interim Guidelines,” said DoLE-NCR regional director Sarah Buena S. Mirasol.
“It includes the wearing of face masks; maintaining physical distance of one meter at all times; checking and recording daily the temperature of their workers and visitors using a health symptom questionnaire; and ensuring sanitation and disinfection process inside their work areas and outside their office premises, among others,” she added.
The top five monitored industries in NCR included accommodation and food services with a total of 18,641 workers from 1,581 establishments; other service activities with 30,959 workers from 1,098 establishments; wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles with 12,252 workers from 1,600 establishments; manufacturing with 17,308 workers from 172 establishments; and administrative and support services with 53,093 workers from 124 establishments.