1. Establish emergency employment/ guaranteed employment programs for workers affected by crisis, the seasonally jobless and the long-term unemployed, particularly the youth and women;
2. Strengthen the Community-Based Employment Program (CBEP) to create jobs and sustain labor market programs by adhering to decent work standards, to prevent the effects of sudden loss of income and to enable vulnerable workers, especially women, to attain economic security:
a) Intensify advocacy for self employment and livelihood programs;
b) Promote workers' cooperatives in the community for mutual assistance (e.g., damayan, paluwagan);
c) Make workers' relief and rehabilitation contingent to relocation to safer habitats and more sustainable livelihood;
d) Guarantee the availability of suitable housing, jobs and livelihood in relocation areas;
e) Promote paradigm shift during crisis from response to mitigation to preparedness interventions; and
f) Establish a multipurpose Emergency Fund for crisis-affected workers.
3. Implement active labor market policies and programs to enhance the employability of vulnerable workers, such as those affected by crisis, workers in the informal economy, displaced and distressed OFWs, internally displaced people, the youth and women:
a) Improve access, availability and affordability of training in new skills and occupations;
b) Expand training opportunities for vulnerable workers; and
c) Facilitate the reintegration of returning OFWs through appropriate training, investment and savings programs.
4. Initiate policy interventions, programs, projects and other measures to ensure the transformation of the brain-drain into a brain-gain phenomenon, and enhance the earning capabilities and entrepreneurship opportunities of returnees.
5. Intensify workforce-focused occupational safety and health (OSH) programs:
a) Improve OSH compliance, particularly in high-risk industries, such as construction;
b) Strengthen industrial tripartite councils for business process outsourcing;
c) Sustain dialogues to strengthen interaction and cooperation between labor and management, to promote OSH programs at the enterprise level, particularly in industries identified as key employment generators or industry winners;
d) Integrate OSH in local development plans and in school curricula;
e) Intensify the campaign for family welfare programs; and
f) Implement gender-responsive OSH programs (e.g. breastfeeding in the workplace).
6. Strengthen measures against child labor and exploitation through strategic partnerships, and intensify advocacy and action at all levels while improving access to quality and integrated services;
7. Use labor-intensive techniques, whenever appropriate, in implementing government infrastructure projects by giving priority to the socially and economically disadvantaged residents of the project areas;
8. Make Public Employment Services Office (PESO) more responsive to the needs of job seekers; and
9. Promote the integration of PWDs in mainstream vocational training, employment, and livelihood schemes, with particular attention to the participation of women with disabilities.