SAN FERNANDO CITY, April 14 -- Some 40,076 workers in the tourism sector in the Ilocos Region received PHP5,000 each from the national government through the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in coordination with the Department of Tourism (DOT).
In an interview on Wednesday, DOT Ilocos regional director Joseph Francisco Ortega said as of March 31, the DOLE already disbursed PHP200.38 million for the workers in the tourism sector in the region.
He said the DOT Ilocos Region has endorsed 48,012 workers whose livelihoods were affected by the pandemic.
Of the total number of endorsed workers, 40,076 have been approved by DOLE while 7,936 are still waiting for approval.
In Ilocos Norte, 4,034 tourism workers were approved to receive ...