Policy Briefs
Policy Briefs are papers that seek to recommend policy solutions to labor and employment issues. The analysis is primarily derived from data in previously completed ILS working papers and is presented to respond to these questions: 1) what is the decent work issue: 2) why is it a decent work issue; 3) what are the evidence of issue; 4) what are the solutions to address the issue. Policy briefs are directly distributed to DOLE officials. In 2014, ILS produced the following policy papers: Disaster Risk Reduction and Management: Improving Labor Market Resilience and Employment Recovery; Impact of the Current Interpretation of BIR of Tax Laws on the Income of Workers: A Study on Tax Distortion, De Minimis Benefits Expansion, and Labor Dispute Awards Taxation; A Rapid Assessment of the Community Based Employment Program; An Assessment of Firm-Level Practices on Decent Work in the Furniture Industry; Decent Work in an Integrated ASEAN Context: The Case of the Philippine Sugarcane Industry; A Study on Decent Work of Tuna Hand Lien Fishermen in the Philippines; Exploratory Research on Policies and Practices Regarding Filipino Offshore Workers; Enabling Expert Returnees to Contribute to National Development: Case Studies of Returned Migrants Engaging in Brain Gain/Knowledge Transfer Activities; Reinforcing Labor Relations Through Responsive Regulations: An Assessment of the Regulatory Areas of Book V of the Labor Code; Anti-Age Discrimination in the Workplace; and Defining the Social Protection Floor Using An Incomes Approach.