{"id":229957,"date":"2019-09-08T18:54:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T22:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=229957"},"modified":"2019-09-08T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T22:54:33","slug":"palace-expects-job-optimism-to-further-grow-with-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/08\/palace-expects-job-optimism-to-further-grow-with-new-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace expects job optimism to further grow with new law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_185453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185453\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185453\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-2.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-2-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Secretary Salvador Panelo\u2019s Press Briefing (Photo screengrabbed from PCOO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang is expecting more optimism over the availability of jobs after President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law which waives government fees for documents needed for employment.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made this remark after a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed that net optimism on job availability rose to \u201cexcellent\u201d with +43 in June 2019, six points higher than the \u201cvery high\u201d with +37 in March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect this level of optimism to grow further especially with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte&#8217;s signing into law Republic Act 11261, popularly known as the First-Time Jobseekers Assistance Act, last May 2019,\u201d Panelo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Palace looks at this landmark legislation as a government&#8217;s investment in our young people, where 1.3 million of them are expected to benefit annually, as government-issued documents and clearances are mandated to be waived for first-time job seekers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Panelo also downplayed the 1 percent increase in adult joblessness from 19.7 percent in March 2019 to 20.7 percent in June 2019 as \u201cseasonal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe attribute this uptick as \u2018seasonal\u2019 since data gathering was conducted when students just recently graduated from their universities or colleges and started looking for employment, with SWS including in the figure those seeking jobs for the first time,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>On April 10 this year, Duterte signed Republic Act 11261 or the First-Time Jobseekers Assistance Act which prohibits the collection of government fees and charges in the issuance of documents required in the application of first-time jobseekers, so long as they submit a barangay certification as proof. The law covers not only fresh graduates but also out-of-school youth.<\/p>\n<p>These documents include police clearance certificate, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) clearance, barangay clearance, medical certificate, birth certificate, marriage certificate, transcript of academic records issued by state colleges and universities, tax identification number (TIN), unified multi-purpose ID (UMID), and other documentary requirements issued by the government that may be required by employers.<\/p>\n<p>In signing the new law, Duterte recognized the need to \u201cpromote full employment and equality of gainful work and opportunities for its citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang is expecting more optimism over the availability of jobs after President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law which waives &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":185453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229958,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229957\/revisions\/229958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}