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THE government will provide livelihood and skills development programs for public utility vehicles (PUV) drivers whose operators will not consolidate individual franchises under cooperatives or corporations, an official of the Office of Transportation Cooperatives (OTC) assured on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n OTC chairman Jesus Ferdinand \u201cAndy\u201d Ortega said government agencies, including the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), have their respective allotted fund for such programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cMayroon pong pondong pumasok sa DOLE at saka sa TESDA po kasi \u2018yung mga affected po, hindi na sumama either operator, drivers or even \u2018yung mga parte ng negosyo ng transportasyon. Pwede po silang mag-avail sa DOLE, wherein they will be given a certain amount. Parang puhunan po in terms of goods to do other businesses,\u201d Ortega said in an interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSa TESDA naman po, pwede silang mag-enroll ng certain courses para sila to have another kind of profession. There are help from DOLE and TESDA sa mga affected po,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ortega also said the government will continue to find solutions for those drivers who wish to join other operators who participated in the mandatory franchise consolidation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAng ating objective po ngayon is mabigyan, tumuloy yung trabaho ng mga jeepney drivers from their previous operators na hindi na po nag-consolidate, para lumipat sila. Tuloy ang trabaho pero this time, iba na po \u2018yun. Sila ay magiging miyembro ng cooperative para mabigyan po sila ng trabaho,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The required franchise consolidation is one of the components in the government\u2019s PUV modernization program (PUVMP) which lapsed on December 31, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unconsolidated commuter jeepneys are still allowed to operate on selected routes until January 21, 2024. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE government will provide livelihood and skills development programs for public utility vehicles (PUV) drivers whose operators will not consolidate individual franchises under cooperatives or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}