Section 4Sec./Art. 4

Trabaho Para sa Bayan Plan; Action Components, Success Measures, and Key Performance Indicators. - The Trabaho Para sa Bayan Plan (TBP Plan) shall be the State's employment generation and recovery master plan. It shall include a three (3)-year, six (6)-year, and ten (10)-year development timeline for its vision, mission, goals, and milestones.

The Trabaho Para sa Bayan Inter-Agency Council created under Section 5 of this Act shall formulate success measures, key performance indicators, and action components, including:

(a) Providing support for the establishment, business continuity, and growth of MSMEs, including start-ups and cooperatives, through increased access to financing, capital, and other incentives, transition of informal MSMEs to formality, and other support mechanisms;

(b) Skilling, upskilling, and reskilling the workforce, including industry-relevant skills and core skills, to improve their employability and competitiveness and to foster lifelong learning, taking into consideration the nuanced needs of workers from marginalized or vulnerable sectors;

(c) Encouraging and providing incentives to employers and other private sector organizations, including industry stakeholders, that offer training, technology, knowledge and skills transfer, upskilling and reskilling, enterprise-based training, such as apprenticeship, work immersion, or on-the-job training, recognition of prior learning and experience, and other similar activities geared towards the improvement of the workforce.

(d) Empowering the workforce on their rights and obligations under the Philippine Constitution, Presidential Decree No. 442 or the Labor Code of the Philippines, as amended, and other rules and regulations, including the right to self-organization, freedom of association, and collective bargaining, through orientations, seminars, and similar modes;

(e) Identifying priority sectors, key and emerging industries, and other activities with high employment potential for various purposes, such as encouraging domestic and foreign direct investments, implementing targeted interventions and subsidies and providing support to create value-adding supply chain;

(f) Expanding the implementation of active labor market policies, information, and programs, including employment facilitation and reintegration support for OFWs, and utilizing innovative means to improve accessibility and efficiency in delivering such services;

(g) Enhancing tripartism and social dialogue among workers, employers, and the government, and increasing the participation and representation of marginalized and vulnerable sectors in various labor issues and concerned;

(h) Addressing youth unemployment by, among others, identifying challenges in the school-to-work transition of new entrants in the labor market, including challenges confronting youth not engaged in education, employment or training (NEET);

(i) Providing standards for training and employment of apprentices, and formulating guidelines for the creation of apprenticeship programs and other enterprise-based education and training modalities to improve productivity and efficiency in the workforce;

(j) Establishing effective and inclusive grievance redress mechanisms to provide an accessible and credible channel for complaints and exact accountability to those liable for obligations and commitments;

(k) Providing support to, and promoting the welfare of, all workers in new forms of work arrangements, such as freelance work, whether in-person or through online platforms or gig economy;

(l) Formulating integrated plans and incentives to encourage and facilitate the transition of workers and enterprises from the informal to formal economy through enabling interventions, such as, but not limited to, business registration, financial literacy programs, and enrollment in social protection programs, such as the Social Security System (SSS), Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), and the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG);

(m) Promoting the adoption of ethical and fair recruitment standards and practices to protect the rights of migrant workers, promote decent work, and enhance the global competitiveness of Filipino workers;

(n) Promoting access to and utilization of digital infrastructure in doing business among MSMEs and informal economic units to overcome the digital divide; and

(o) Contributing to the implementation of the full-cycle and comprehensive national reintegration program for documented and undocumented OFWs.