Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz has said that the Social Security System (SSS) and the labor department have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on information sharing that will lead to improved compliance by employers’ with their obligation to enroll their workers for coverage and to remit their contributions.
Baldoz said the MOA provides that the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) shall endorse to SSS non-compliant employers for appropriate action.
“This just formalizes what the DOLE has been doing,” said Baldoz, saying that DOLE regional directors have been furnishing their SSS counterparts of the findings of Labor Laws Compliance Officers relative to noncompliant establishments.
Since the full implementation of the DOLE’s Labor Laws Compliance System in 2014, the department has covered a total of 109,826 establishments.