NEW DOLE SECRETARY. Newly-installed Labor and Employment Secretary Bienvenido E. Laguesma (right) receives the DOLE flag and other transition documents from outgoing Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III (left) during the turnover ceremony on July 1 at the Labor Governance Learning Center (LGLC) in Intramuros Manila on July 1. Secretary Laguesma started his public service career at DOLE as a mediator-arbiter, administrator, executive director, undersecretary, and eventually Department Secretary during the Estrada administration. The new labor chief looks forward to making DOLE a more responsible and responsive institution that reaches out to needy workers, especially those in rural and far-urban areas (Photo by Jerome Sajise DOLE/IPS)
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