The Department of Labor and Employment has issued new guidelines for accessing the funds of its Workers Organization Development Program (WODP) to strengthen the mechanism toward empowering trade unions and other workers’ organizations.
“WODP is a government program that gives workers’ organization and its members and their dependents an opportunity for systemic learning and growth through the provision of accessible information facilities, training programs, and educational and technical assistance,” said Labor chief Silvestre Bello III in signing Department Order No. 203.
Under the new guidelines, components of the program shall only be in the form of a grant, which includes the provision of training in areas such as organizational development and management and labor and employment-related subject areas as well as scholarship assistance.
The program will cover all legitimate workers’ organizations undertaking programs or projects funded from WODP.
Other provisions in the guidelines include specific requirements in the accreditation of WODP beneficiaries, modified general conditions in availing of grants, and provisions particular to offered assistance.
The guidelines shall take effect 15 days after its publication in at least two newspapers of general circulation.