Tulong-Trabaho Act

Case Overview and Summary

Summary of Republic Act No. 11230 (Tulong-Trabaho Act)

General Provisions:
- Declares policy to promote employment, skills development, and quality of life through TVET programs (Section 2)
- Objectives: strengthen workforce qualifications, provide innovative TVET approaches, facilitate access to quality TVET, encourage industry and community participation (Section 3)
- Defines key terms like competencies, competencies-based learning, direct training expenses, enterprise-based programs, formal/informal education, industry boards, labor market intelligence reports, Philippine TVET Competencies Assessment and Certification System, Selected Training Programs (STPs), TVET (Section 4)
- Establishes the Philippine Labor Force Competencies Competitiveness Program funded by the Tulong-Trabaho Fund (Section 5)

The Tulong-Trabaho Fund:
- Creates the Tulong-Trabaho Fund to provide qualified recipients with free access to TVET programs under STPs, covering training fees, transportation allowance, laboratory fees, assessment, certification, and other costs (Section 6)
- Funded from TESDA's budget in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) and other sources like donations (Section 7)
- Used to pay fees of qualified recipients in STPs (Section 8)
- Qualified recipients: (a) persons aged 15 and above who are not employed, not in education, and not in training (NEET), and (b) employed workers intending to develop skills, excluding existing workers trained by employers (Section 9)
- TESDA manages the fund, with the TESDA Board promulgating policies and guidelines, receiving donations, and determining qualified beneficiaries (Section 10)
- TESDA Board approves final list of eligible STPs based on labor market intelligence reports, employment data, job-skills matching data, human resource development roadmaps, and other studies (Section 11)
- Industry boards submit list of trainees requesting assistance, TESDA Regional Directors assess and submit list of qualified recipients to TESDA Director General for approval (Section 12)
- TESDA Board evaluates schools and training centers receiving funding, ensuring at least 80% of beneficiaries pass the Philippine TVET Competencies Assessment and Certification System (Section 13)
- TESDA creates public online registry of schools offering STPs and database of qualified recipients and graduates (Section 14)
- TESDA Board issues annual report on fund utilization, expenditures, recipient performance, and impact evaluation (Section 15)

Development Modalities and Support Systems:
- TESDA designs and implements support systems for developing additional TVET programs and improving existing ones (Section 16)
- TESDA ensures qualified recipients are appropriately trained and their competencies are regularly updated through standards, planning, trainers' training and certification, competency assessment and certification, quality assurance system, development of modalities and programs for employed workers, accumulation of new learning modules, and participation of industries, local governments, and labor sector (Section 17)

Miscellaneous Provisions:
- Creates Joint Congressional Oversight Committee to monitor implementation and disbursements of Tulong-Trabaho Fund (Section 18)
- TESDA issues implementing rules and regulations within 60 days after effectivity (Section 19)
- Separability clause (Section 20)
- Repealing clause (Section 21)
- Effectivity 15 days after publication in the Official Gazette or newspaper (Section 22)