2015 PRE-DEPLOYMENT TRAINING AND IMMERSION PROGRAM
FOR POLO PERSONNEL
Module 1 – Relevant International and Philippine Laws and Policies
(e-Learning Course)
ADVISORY FOR THE PARTICIPANTS
1. Date and Venue. The above-mentioned training module will be accessible online starting
on October 26, 2015. Participants are required to go to DOLE eLearning website, using
this link: elearning.dole.gov.ph. They can use any desktop computers, laptops, and ipads
with internet access. The online course may be taken at home or while still doing turn-overs
and facilitating clearances in their respective offices. Also, the eLearning Facility of the
Labor and Governance Learning Center (LGLC) will be open during office hours and will be
able to accommodate thirteen (13) participants at a given time on a “first-come, first-served”
basis.
2. Schedule. This is a 30-hour online course where participants are expected to learn through
online-remote sessions which is asynchronous thus it will not require an all-day online
access and can be done at own pace. Below is the training schedule prepared by the
POLO eLearning Committee.
3. Registration. Participants are required to log on these links: http://bit.ly/1MIbKfD for the
registration form and fill-in the email address preferably with a Google Mail or gmail
email account. Access of the class portal is at http://elearning.dole.gov.ph/eportal/ or at
http://elearning.dole.gov.ph/, for all training/class resources, homeworks, remotediscussions and updates. NOTE: class will be open on October 26, 2015. Those who
failed to register at the start of the class may still do so but not on the 2nd week of
November 2015 (classroom training). However, late registrants must be responsible in
catching-up with the past sessions.
IMPORTANT: Registration is pre-requisite for enrollment to the online course. The 2015
POLO eLearning Committee will manually enroll all registrants.
4. Activities. All are required to take the module. Please go to this link for the course syllabus
http://bit.ly/1PFFf88.
5. Outputs. At the end of the online course, participants are expected to be equipped with the
necessary knowledge on international and local laws, policies and guidelines relative to
POLO Operations.
6. Others. The POLO eLearning Committee prepared a downloadable Portal Guide which
will contain all the basic FAQs in using the online course. This file will be individually sent to
your email at the opening day of the class on October 26, 2015.
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7. For more details please contact the HRDS Training Unit c/o Karen Romero at 09988599442 or Kevin Buena at 0918-3763613 or at telephone number 527-3580, emails dolehrds.training@gmail.com, kaeromero@gmail.com and lesterbuena@gmail.com
For your guidance.
2015 POLO eLearning Committee
Mode
Online-Remote
Topic
Topic 1 – Migration and Development Perspectives; Focus on Circular
Migration
Topic 2 – International Laws
Topic 3 – Protection to labor in the 1987 Philippine Constitution and the
Labor Code as Amended
Topic 4 – Relevant Items in the 22-Point Agenda
Topic 5 – Salient features of RA 10022 and Overview of the Overseas
Employment Program
Topic 6 – Introduction to the POLO Manual
Topic 7 – One-Country Team Approach (OCTA) and POLO: laws,
relationship, policies and Operating Procedures
Topic 8 – Orientation on the 2002 POEA Rules and Regulations
Topic 9 – Gender and Development Laws Magna Carta on Women
Topic 10 – Relevant provision of the Family Code (in relation to requests
for assistance)
Topic 11 – Absentee Voting
Suggested Readings:
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Ethical Recruitment
Basic Occupational Safety and Health
Personal Security Awareness and Identification of Threats and Vulnerabilities
Regional Consultative Processes
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