Quezon City - The Institute for Labor Studies, together with the Bureau of Local Employment, Planning Service, and regional offices of the Department of Labor and Employment, has successfully concluded the Regional Pre-Employment Summit Consultations during its final leg in Luzon Cluster held on 13 to 14 June 2024, at the Park Inn by Radisson North ESDA, Quezon City.

In her opening remarks, DOLE Undersecretary for Employment and Human Resource Development Cluster Carmela I. Torres highlighted the importance of the pre-employment summit consultations in preparation for the National Employment Summit. 

“The outputs of this regional consultation will be the building blocks to the employment covenant in the formulation and realization of the 10-year Trabaho Para sa Bayan (TPB) Plan. Such will be adopted and signed by the National Economic and Development Authority Secretary as the Chair and DOLE and DTI as co-chairs of the Trabaho Para sa Bayan Inter-Agency Council during the National Employment Summit."

DOLE Undersecretary Torres also extended her sincere appreciation to the International Labor Organization (ILO) for its ongoing provision of technical guidance and financial support to the Pre-Summit consultations and to the policies and programs of DOLE. 

Conducted in various regions in the country, the Pre-summit regional consultations were organized to harmonize the priorities, outcomes, and strategies of the Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028, Philippine Labor and Employment Plan 2023-2028, and Strategic Investments Priority Plan and align them with the formulation of the 10-year TPB Plan. The Philippine Labor and Employment Plan 2023-2028 is a primary source document of the 10-year TPB Plan.

The National Employment Summit will be conducted from 26 to 27 June 2024 at the Manila Hotel, Manila. The summit aims to forge commitments among social partners, workers, employers, organizations, and sectoral and other relevant stakeholders towards developing the 10-year TPB Plan.

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