WHAT IS PESO? 

The Public Employment Service Office (PESO) is a non-fee charging multi-dimenstional employment service facility or entity established in all Local Government Units (LGUs) in coordination with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) pursuant to R.A. No. 8759 or the PESO Act of 1999 as amended by R.A. No. 10691.

The PESO aims to ensure prompt and efficient delivery of employment facilitation services as well as to provide timely information on labor market and DOLE Programs.

OBJECTIVE OF PESO

The PESO shall ensure prompt, timely, and efficient delivery of full-cycle employment facilitation services. Towards this end, it shall:

• Provide a venue where clients could avail simultaneously various employment services, such as Labor Market Information (LMI), referrals, training, and entrepreneurial, reintegration, and other services:

• Serve as referral and information center for the DOLE and other government agencies by making available data and information on their respective programs;

• Provide clients with adequate information for the DOLE and other government agencies by making available data and information on their respective programs;

• Provide clients with adequate information on employment  and the labor market situation; and

• Establish linkages with other PESOs for job exchange and other employment related services. The PESO shall also provide information on other DOLE programs.

MAIN FUNCTIONS OF PESO

• The PESO shall provide LMI services.

• The PESO shall provide referral and placement services for local and overseas as well as private and public employment in accordance with existing policies, rules and regulations.

• The PESO shall provide career advocacy and employment coaching services.

• The PESO shall facilitate the implementation and/or provision of livelihood and self-employment programs and services.

• In coordination with Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and the National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO), the PESO shall assist in providing re-integration assistance services to returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs).

• The PESO shall prepare and submit to the respective local Sanggunian or Council, through the LGU committee on Labor and Employment.

• Coordinate and promote the adoption of enrolled youth work programs such as SPES and GIP pursuant to Executive Order no. 139 through Kabataan 2000 under the Office of the President as implemented by the DOLE and other agencies based on existing laws, rules and regulations.

• The PESO shall likewise perform other functions analogous to the above including programs or activities developed by the DOLE to enhance provision of employment assistance to clients, particularly for special groups of PWDs and displaced workers.