The term PESO is becoming a by-word not only among Philippine job seekers but more and more among the Local Government Units or LGUs, State and private colleges and universities, and non-government organizations, and even among the general public. Indeed, the PESOs in the Region have a come along way.
The term PESO is an acronym that stands for Public Employment Service Office. It was originally a mere program of DOLE on employment facilitation started sometime in 1992 basically to yield free employment facilitation services for our job seekers and job applicants, but then as a mere job matching and referral facility.
It was the government’s counterpart to the private recruitment and placement agencies (PRPAs) for local employment and the private recruitment agencies (PRAs) for overseas deployment.
Then found to be an effective employment facilitation service, the DOLE initiated efforts to ensure the continuous services of the PESOs through its institutionalization. In 1999, more concrete initiatives towards the institutionalization of the PESO were taken via the filing of PESO bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate. House Bill No. 7127 was finally approved in the House of Representatives on December 15, 1999 and Senate Bill No. 468 was approved in the Senate on December 16, 1999. The said approved bills were then consolidated and thus the PESO program was legislated and signed into law-mandated offices by then President Joseph E. Estrada under Republic Act No. 8759 otherwise known as the PESO Act of 1999.
Thus, the PESO Act of 1999 mandated the establishment of a Public Employment Service Office or PESO in all capital towns of provinces, key cities, and other strategic areas of the country. It is supposed to be community-based and maintained largely by the local government units and a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or community-based organizations (CBOs) and state universities and colleges. These PESOs are also mandated to be linked to the DOLE Regional Office for coordination and technical supervision, and to the DOLE Central Office to constitute the national employment service network.
The promotion and coordination of the PESO program is directly under DOLE’s Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) now headed by Bureau Director Criselda Sy, and is part of the wider Employment and Manpower Development Cluster headed by DOLE Undersecretary Romeo C. Lagman.
By 2003, there were still only few operational PESOs in the Region and these few operational PESOs were only functional periodically. These were obvious in the very few attendance in the Regional PESO Congress, most of whom come from the Province of Leyte. The PESOs were facing several challenges including their status as merely designated PESO managers, the lack of support of either the Local Chief Executives, or the LGU Department heads, or the Sanguniang Bayan or Panglungsod, and their lack of specific budget allocation.
Responding to these challenges, new efforts were initiated to enhance the then existing PESOs and to get other LGUs, colleges and universities to establish their own Public Employment Service Offices or PESOs.
One major initiative was the launching of the Advocacy Orientation on DOLE-LGU Closer Partnership which was fixed at getting the LGU officialdom and the SUCs and private colleges and universities to be aware, understand and appreciate the importance of the PESO to their mandate and the needs of their constitutes.
Another vital effort was to encourage the region’s PESO Managers to attend the National PESO Congress, both to give them an opportunity to hear and learn from their counterparts in the other regions of the country, and to serve as an incentive to their for year’s active implementation of employment programs in their areas. Whereas before, there were only a few who would attend the National PESO Congress, in the last National PESO Congress held at the Oxford Hotel in Clark, Pampanga, there were more than 60 PESO Managers who participated from the Eastern Visayas region.
Currently, there are now 161 PESO Managers all over the region, of which 149 are PESO Managers of Local Government Units (provinces, cities and municipalities), 11 are PESO Managers in the academe (State and private colleges and universities) and one PESO Manager in an NGO. (DOLE/PIA)
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