Prescriptions on Business Survival and Resilience: “ILO’s Social protection responses to the COVID-19 crisis: Country responses in Asia and the Pacific”

by | Jun 15, 2020 | COVID19, Prescriptions on Business Survival and Resilience

In a brief released in March 2020, the International Labour Organization (ILO) outlined the importance of social protection in responding to the COVID-19 crisis. Initially a public health crisis, the pandemic has since developed into a global economic crisis that brings with it a new set of completely different challenges for the economic sector.

Since the crisis has shone a light on the importance of universal access to social protection systems, the brief presents the main areas addressed by national social protection policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis.

For the full report, please click the link below:

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_protect/—soc_sec/documents/publication/wcms_742337.pdf

 

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Edgardo Lacson

Chairman of the Board

Edgardo G. Lacson is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), and Director of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). He was formerly President and Honorary Chairman of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI).  He was the President of ECOP from 2010 to 2016. Ed Lacson also serves as the President of various business firms, including MIS Maritime Corporation, Safe Seas Shipping Agency, Marine Industrial Supply Corporation, and EML Realty. He serves as Chairman of Metrostore Corporation, MIL Export Philippines, Beacon Environmental Management Services and Primelode, among others.

He is likewise Trustee of both the De La Salle Canlubang, Inc. and Philippine Petroleum Sea Transport Association (PHILPESTA), Managing Director of Link Edge, and a member of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), Philippine Interisland Shipping Association (PISA), and Makati Business Development Council (MBDC).

An alumnus of then De La Salle College and now De La Salle University where he earned his degree in Bachelor of Science in Commerce (BSC) Major in Accounting, Ed Lacson indeed through the years has expanded his horizons.

Edgardo Lacson serves as Honorary Chairman at PCCI. His previous business affiliations include the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC), Marine Chemical Corporation, VLK Traders Philippines, Inc., and Esso Standard Eastern.