Low Investment

in Human
Resource
Development
Brief Background
❏ Employees are valuable assets of an organization and the key to success.

❏ It is very important to invest in the Human Resource Development sector for the success of the business
does not only depend on the owner but also on the employees.

❏ In terms of the economic development field, APEC said that the human resource development is essential.
Also, they believe that skills shortages can limit the growth of output in the short-term and restrict the
possibility of diversifying productive structure in the long-term.
What is Human Resource Development?

Human Resource Development covers several

dimensions which includes educational
attainment, workforce skills, population health
and set of employment policies that allows firms
employ workers with appropriate skills and the
ability to adapt with new challenges with ease.
The said areas are the key in making the
environment favorable for investments.
Challenges and Issues

LOW HRD EQUATION

Challenges and Issues
Challenges and Issues

Educational Attainment

● On the year 2012 Philippine spending on

education for primary, secondary and
tertiary education represents only just a third
of United Nations recommended national
investment on Education.

● In the present year (2017), the Department of

Education received the highest budget of
Php.567.5 billion.
Challenges and Issues

Health

● In the first year of President Duterte’s

administration, he failed to put up additional
Barangay Health Stations.

● There is an absence or lack of preventive

and primitive health services such as
immunization.
Challenges and Issues

Employment Policies

● The World Bank report said that Informal

wage workers lack employment contract
and social insurance, and most of them
don’t receive any protection against
unfair dismissal.
Challenges and Issues

Workforce Skills

● The standard proxy for educational

attainment- years of formal schooling-is still
increasingly not enough as a measure of
workforce skills.

● Two thirds of employers report have a

difficulty in finding workers with an
adequate work ethic, or appropriate
interpersonal and communication skills.
 Challenges and Issues

Human Development Index

● “It measures the average achievements in
certain country in 3 basic dimensions of
human development.”

● 3 Dimensions are: A Long Healthy Life, Access

to Knowledge and Decent Standard of Living.
 HRD
Challenges in
Bacolod City
 Education

Due to the implementation This situation produces a high Due to the shortfall of the
of the K -12 program, DepEd number of teachers being number of teachers and
in Bacolod city has a assigned to educate subjects increased quantity of
massive shortage of in which they are not qualified enrolled students, numerous
teachers. to teach or do not match their school systems resort to
training which also known as sacrificing standards of
“out of field”.
teaching.
 Education
Education

Because of the out of field The government is also Students that has incompetent
teaching, this phenomena responsible of this concern teacher will most likely suffer in
often produces incompetent because as it was stated, the near future because they
teachers. education budget for school year are provided with insufficient
2017-2018 increased by 17%. skills and knowledge.
 Lack of Job Opportunities
Lack of Job Opportunities

BRAIN DRAIN If those highly qualified and more

experienced medical technologists go
overseas, they cannot render their
Otella Araneta, a medical services here in the country and would
technologist for six years decided bring negative results in the human
to apply for a job in Dubai resource development of the country.
because of the higher wage being
offered compared to the wage The government failed to properly allocate
being offered here in the country. human resources especially in the labour
force.
 Lack of Job Opportunities
JOB MISMATCH
Job mismatch refers to a worker in a job that does not correspond with his/her level of education,
experience, skills and interests.
● Unemployed people tend to settle for a work
that does not fit their skill set.
● Rise of underemployment in the country
● lower job satisfaction and they tend to lose
productivity.

“ For the division of labor to produce solidarity, it is

not sufficient, then, that each have his task; it is
still necessary that this task be fitting to him.”
- Emile Durkheim
 Legal
Legal Issues
Issues
The workers called on the President to increase the minimum wage and to stop “endo” or end
of contract scheme.
● Pres. Duterte slammed D.O. 174 which prohibits
labor-only contracting, or the practice of merely
recruiting or supplying workers to perform a job or
work for an employer. It also limits “endo” through
prohibition of continuous hiring of workers under a
repeated contract of short duration.

● “If the President is really serious in helping the

workers, he should push for the passage of the
Regular Employment Bill at the Congress.”

- KMU-Negros Occidental spokesperson Noly Rosales

 Legal
Legal Issues
Issues
COMPLAINTS ABOUT “The government lacks labor inspectors (even after)
GOVERNMENT MONITORING OF about 200 were hired by the government to do the job.
EMPLOYERS Because of the lack of labor inspectors, the Dole has been
encouraging employees to come to their office and complain.
New daily minimum wage rates in Negros Occidental range
from P271.50 to P323.50. It cannot be denied there are still
employers who are non-compliant but their employees are
keeping mum for fears of losing their jobs. ”

-Roland de la Cruz, Vice President of Trade Union Congress of the

Philippines and president of the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar
Industry of the Philippines.
 Legal Issues
Labor Rights Violation
● Employees of the Bacolod Our Lady of Mercy Specialty Hospital
(BOLMSH) in Mandalagan, Bacolod City have been battling the
hospital management’s refusal to recognize their labor rights,
including the right to form a union and forge a collective
bargaining agreement.

● “It’s terrible that existing health care system doesn’t care if our
medical workers are being exploited and their rights abused. The
country’s healthcare system is controlled by greedy businessmen
hungry for profits. We, the health care workers, are falling sick
because we are being denied our economic and political rights,”
said the employees.
 Low Health Coverage
Limited Facilities and Equipment

The facilities and equipment that the city or

even the country have is quite limited or lacking
that sometimes if not most of the time patients
with severe diseases opt to be treated in other
countries or cities. This only shows that there is a
need for innovation in the health department
especially in technologies used in diagnosing and
treating patients.
 Low Health Coverage
Inefficient Public Health Care Services

● The unproportional ratio between the number of

patients and public workers in the provincial hospital
of Negros Occidental deprives the public of free
health aid and immediate assistance about their
health concerns.
● The Geronca family sought for an investigation
regarding the death of Mary Joy Geronca, a pregnant
woman of twins due to an alleged medical
negligence of the staff in Corazon Locsin
Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH)
last January 17. (PhilNews, 2017)
 HRD Solutions
and
Recommendation
s
 Solutions
Education in the Philippines
DepEd Order No.62, s. 2011 or the Indigenous People Education Program strengthened through
DepEd Order No. 32, s. 2015 seeks to involve IP communities into education programs.

DepEd Order No. 62, s. 2016 Additional Provision and Amendments to DepEd Order No. 51, s. 2016
(Implementation of the School - Based Feeding Program for School Year 2016 - 2017). This is to
address the problem of malnutrition and short term hunger for public school students in the span of
120 feeding days.

Implementation of K to 12 with the aim to make Filipinos more globally

competitive.
 Solutions

Workforce Skills Enhancement

TESDA Women’s Center -seeks Apprenticeship Program -

to advance the economic status A training and employment
of women through training, program involving a contract
entrepreneurship development, between an apprentice and an
gender sensitive policies, employer on an approved
programs and projects, research apprenticeable occupation for
and advocacy. 4-6 months.
 Solutions
Population Health
Output-Based Aid in the Philippines (Public Health Project)

Improve the health status Supporting maternal health, safe

of poor populations and to deliveries and reproductive
create incentives for health services, the project may Increase uptake of
accessing health care. contribute to long-term positive PhilHealth insurance
health impacts, improved living coverage by households
conditions, and better economic identified as poor by the
status for low-income families. National Household
Targeting System.
 Solutions
Employment
Creation of Labor Employment Plan (LEP) year 2011 to 2016 by DOLE

Policy environment that will Improve the employability of the

increase labor demand, improve youth and the educated through
labor supply using pro-employment measures addressing
A global trading master plan labor market policies.
oversubscription to academic
than aims to establish worldwide degree and skills training
trading posts that rely on the Increase exports and encourage programs.
labor, knowledge and foreign and domestic
entrepreneurial spirit of Overseas investments to increase
Filipino Workers (OFWs). employment generation.
 Recommendations
Education

Enhance the Education System of the country by improving the

training and development for teachers and providing students with
a venue to utilize their capacities.

Review the adequacy, structure and responsiveness of the basic education

program in order to meet the legal requirements of entrepreneurship and
paid employment and ensuring the best quality education for students to
graduate with high levels of learning.
 Recommendations
Workforce Skills Enhancement

In order for students to fully understand the skills needed

for employment, technical schools should establish
partnership with businesses. Through this students can
acquire skills and abilities for employment and business
can produce high quality services.
 Recommendations

Public Health

Establish a new commission under DOH/DSWD that

facilitates public health services like feeding programs
and medical missions especially in rural areas. Through
this the department of DOH and DSWD will focus in
providing the basic services needed by the netizens.
 Recommendations
Employment

Employment subsidies for firm that hires unemployed

workers. Subsidies will help the firm maintain and
facilitate its operations and production of goods thus
increasing the product output of our country.

Building a strong relationship between employer and

employees through seminars, camps, talks and other
activities that involves all the members of the
company.
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