‘Click’ on DOLE for services

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/NIÑO JESUS ORBETA

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Sunday said that almost all available data and performance reports of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will be posted online this year to enhance government transparency, reduce red tape and boost anticorruption efforts.

“One of our thrusts this year is to develop new information systems…to ensure the fast, extensive and integrated delivery and monitoring of all services being provided by all DOLE-attached agencies, bureaus and services, including regional and field offices,” Baldoz said in a statement.

The Professional Regulation Commission had uploaded a number of its transactions online in 2011. This year, it will make available online verification of academic records, professional identification cards and eligibilities. Applications for board examinations will also be available online this year.

These systems are currently in various stages of implementation, the secretary said.

POEA records

Also, Baldoz said, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, under newly appointed Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac, is set to computerize its central records.

The National Wages and Productivity Commission would also post wages and productivity issuances online. It would have referencing and browsing capabilities to enable lawyers and researchers, among other users, to update their own databases.

At the DOLE main office, Baldoz said six new information systems will go online this year: foreign labor operations, enhanced labor standards enforcement monitoring, registration of establishments, case docket and monitoring, and human resource information.

Labor attachés

The Foreign Labor Operations Information System would monitor what labor attachés are doing, including work and financial plans and actual accomplishments on a quarterly, semi-annual and annual basis.

The Enhanced Labor Standards Enforcement Monitoring System would facilitate monitoring compliance of establishments with general labor standards, occupational safety and health standards. It would also serve as a database for inspected establishments, monitored cases and corrections of violations. Performance reports of regional offices will also be available online.