Companies that availed of the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) Covid-19 Adjustment Measure Program (CAMP) may get another round of benefits.
This after DOLE said it will be prioritizing them for its proposed wage subsidy program.
“They will become our priority because we have a list of employers and who among their workers, who lost their jobs,” Labor Assistant Secretary officer-in-charge Dominique R. Tutay said in an online interview on Thursday.
DOLE is planning to provide a 25 percent to 50 percent wage subsidy for qualified firms for three months as a employment retention initiative during the Covid-19 crisis.
However, Tutay said the implementation of the said program will depend on the approval of their requested P35-billion budget, which included in the pending stimulus package bill in Congress.
“We are awaiting for the approval of the proposal, and of course the corresponding budget [for the wage subsidy],” Tutay said.
DOLE said almost 70,000 workers were already permanently displaced from Jan. to June 8, 2020.
It estimated about 3 to 5 million may lose their jobs this year because of the Covid-19 crisis.