THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF TIiE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES } 
Second Regular Session 
SENATE 
A I  "" 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MAN" 
VILLAR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Although most young people of working age are eager to work for their daily 
subsistence, there is a lack of programs and facilities that could equip them with the 
right training and, skills for employment. 
In order to promote full employment and give optimum opportunity to all, there is 
a need to adopt measures to ensure that Filipinos are made competitive in terms of 
labor and the goods that they produce locally. 
This bill seeks to bring education to the grassroots level and promote 
employment opportunities by creating training, livelihood and employment centers 
in cities and selected municipalities nationwide. The said centers will act as venues tot 
skills development, job assistance and placement, employment generation, and 
acquisition of technology and market information. 
With the creation of the training, livelihood, and employment centers, it is 
envisioned that a productive and competitive manpower that has training and skills 
needed to lead us towards sustainable economic growth and industrialization can be 
developed. 
Passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
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THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES } 
Second Regular Session 
2398 
S. No. 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAiR 
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE CREATION OF TRAINING,, LIVELIHOOD AND 
EMPLOYMENT CENTERS IN CITIES AND MUNICIPAL NATIONWIDE, 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND OTHER PURPOSES 
Be if enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine in 
Congress assembled. 
SECTION 1. Declaration of Policy. - It is the policy of the State to promote full 
employment and to give optimum opportunities to all. It is also the mandate of the State 
in adopt measures to ensure that Filipinos are made competitive in terms of Labor and 
the goods they produce locally. Towards this end, the State shall institute programs and 
install appropriate 
mechanisms to encourage livelihood and entrepreneurial 
development and promote full employment to all qualified citizens. 
SEC, 2. Definition of Terms, - 
For purposes of this Act, the following terms shall mean: 
a) Center refers to a physical structure or a mechanism, or both, which shall serve as a 
venue for training, livelihood, and employment activities and assistance; 
b) Training refers to any activity that imparts skills and knowledge, watt the objective of 
preparing individuals for future employment or business undertaking; 
c) Livelihood refers to a backyard, cottage industry or micro enterprise that will generate 
self employment and business opportunities; and 
d) Employment refers to assistance in terms of job opportunities, hiring, and job 
placement services 
SEC. 3. Creationlstrengthening of Training, Livelihood and Employment Centers. - 
There shall be created in cities and selected municipalities training, livelihood, 
and employment centers, hereinafter referred to as “centers,” as venues for skills 
development, job assistance and placement, employment generation, and acquisition of 
technology and market information. Provided, That those with existing training, 
livelihood, andlor employment centers shall only be entitled to upgrading, strengthening 
andlor consolidation, whichever is feasible: Provided further, That at least one center 
shall be established in every congressional district. 
SEC. 4. Programs and Services of the Center. The training, livelihood and employment 
center shall provide the following services to the public: 
a) Integrated skills training, livelihood and employment services offered by various 
government agencies, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and 
the academe: 


b) Skills and business management training progrsms to prepare local residents for 
employment and/or entrepreneurship; 
c) Technical assistance in all aspects of livelihood and enterprise development such as 
production, marketing, finance, organization and management; 
d) Placement services for all types of labor, whether in the public or the private sector, 
domestic or foreign and 
e) Information dissemination of employment opportunities and labor requirement trends, 
local or abroad. 
SEC. 5, Administration of the Center. The center shall be financed managed and 
sustained by the respective cit or municipal government in coordination with tile 
congressional district office. 
SEC. 6. National Coordinating Body - To provide planning and policy direction on the 
national level, there is hereby created a Training and Employment Planning and 
Coordinating Committee are: (TEPCC) to be chaired by the Department of Labor and 
Employment ( DOLE) The members of the committee are Technical Education and 
Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Department of Interior and Local Government 
(DILG) and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Social Welfare and 
Development (DSWD), Department of Science and Technology (POST), Department of 
Agriculture (DA), Department of Environment, and - Natural Resources (DRNR), 
Department of Finance (DEW), Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC), 
League of Cities of the Philippines (ICP), League of' Municipalities of the Philippines 
(LMP), National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and industry 
associations and non-governmental organizations(NG0s) engaged in training, 
livelihood, and/or employment placement, to he appointed by the President of the 
Philippines 
The amount of Five Million Pesos (P5,000,000,00) is hereby appropriated for the initial 
year of operation of the Training and Employment Planning and Coordinating 
Committee (TEPCC). Thereafter, the sum necessary for the continued operation of the 
TEPCC shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act. 
SEC. 7. Functions of the TEPCC. - The TEPCC shall be responsible for the following: 
a) Conduct of a national area-based mapping of training, livelihood and/or employment 
centers to determine which areas need priority establishments and which existing 
centers need strengthening, upgrading, or consolidating, based on needs analysis; 
b) Formulation of policy guidelines for the creation, upgrading or strengthening of the 
centers; 
e) Development of integrated programs to support the operations and services of the 
centers; and 
d) Monitoring and evaluation. 
SEC. 8. Training and Employment Center Fund. - 
There is, hereby, created a Training 
and Employment Center Fund (TEC Fund) amounting to Four Hundred Million Pesos 
(P400, OOO,OOO.OO), which shall be included in the General Appropriations Act and 
which shall be made available to local government units (LGUs) for the creation, 
upgrading or strengthening of the centers; Provided That a grant package to be availed 
of by the city or municipality shall not exceed One Million Pesos (PI, 000.000.00). The 


fund, which shall be in a form of grant, shall be administered by the Department of 
Finance through the Municipal Development Fund. A corresponding local government 
(LOU) counterpart shall be required in order to avail of the grant package. 
SEC, 9. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Department of Labor and 
Employment, in coordination with the other government agencies and private 
organizations represented in the TEPCC, shall promulgate the rules and regulations to 
effectively implement the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 10. Separability Clause. - If any provision of the Act is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act shall rent be affected thereby. 
SEC. 11. Repealing Clause.- All laws, decrees, executive orders, and rules and 
regulations or parts thereof contrary to or inconsistent with the pm visions of this Act. 
arc hereby deemed repealed or modified accordingly. 
SEC. 12. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in 
the official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation, 
Approved,