The Public Employment Service Office (PESO) is
a non-fee charging multi-employment facility or entity established or
accredited by DOLE in Local Government Units (LGUs), State Universities and
Colleges (SUCs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Community Based
Organizations (CBOs), pursuant to Republic Act 8759 otherwise known as the PESO
Act of 1999, and its Implementing Rules and Regulations.
The PESOs are linked to the Regional Offices
of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) for coordination and technical
supervision, and to the DOLE Central Office, to constitute the National
Employment Network.
OBJECTIVES OF
PESO
General
Objective
Ø Ensure the
prompt, timely and efficient delivery of employment service and provision
of information on the other DOLE programs.
Specific Objectives
Ø Provide a venue
where people could explore simultaneously various employment options and
actually seek assistance that prefers;
Ø Serve as referral
and information center for the various activities and programs of DOLE and
other government agencies present in the area;
Ø Provide clients
with adequate information on employment and labor market situation in the
area; and
Ø Network with
other PESOs in the region for the job employment purposes.
WHAT ARE THE
FUNCTIONS OF PESO?
1. Encourage
employers to submit the PESO on a regular basis a list of job vacancies in
their respective establishments in order to facilitate the exchange of labor
market information services job seeker, both for local and overseas employment,
and recruitment assistance to employers;
2. Develop and
administer testing and evaluation for effective job selection, training and
counseling;
3. Provide persons
with entrepreneurship qualities access to the various livelihoods and
self-employment programs offered by both government and non-government
organizations at the provincial/city/municipality/barangay levels by undertaking
such referral for such programs;
4. Undertake
employability enhancement trainings/seminar for jobseekers as well as those
would like to change career or enhance their employability. This function is
presently supervised by TESDA and conducted by other training;
5. Provide
employment and occupational counseling, career guidance, mass motivation and
values development activities;
6. Conduct
pre-employment counseling and orientation to prospective local and overseas
workers;
7. Provide
reintegration assistance services to returning Filipino migrant workers; and
8. Perform such
functions as willfully carry out the objectives of this Act.
Special Services:
ü
Job Fairs
ü
Livelihood and
Self-employment Bazaars
ü
Special credit
assistance for Placed Overseas Workers
ü
Special Program for
the Employment of Students (SPES)
ü
Work Appreciation
Program (WAP)
ü
Workers Hiring for
Infrastructure Projects (WHIP)
PESO Clients:
ü
Jobseekers
ü
Employers
ü
Students
ü
Out of School Youth
ü
Migratory Workers
ü
Planners
ü
Researchers
ü
Labor Market
Information Users
ü
Persons With
Disabilities (PWD’s)
ü
Returning Overseas
Filipino Workers (OFW’s)
ü
Displaced Workers
