CEDAW/C/PHL/Q/7-8/Add.1 I. Employment 12. Relative to the Committee’s previous recommendation (CEDAW/C/PHI/CO/6, para. 26), measures taken to: (a) protect women working in the informal sector, particularly to provide them with social benefits, such as health benefit package 12.1 PhilHealth provides partial subsidy scheme for micro -entrepreneurs. It also implements an indigency program for those with no visible means of income or whose income is insufficient for family Female spouse may be designated as the primary member of the Program. (b) promote their integration into the formal labour force, in particular those living in rural areas 12.2 The Department of Trade and Industry’s Rural Micro-Enterprise Promotion Program (RuMePP) has been assisting rural women and men’s entrepreneurship through micro-finance services consolidation, nonfinancial services and market linkage development. It pays particular consideration to women ’s economic activities and their movement to bigger management and production including use of technology. 12.3 DOLE’s Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program grants assistance in terms of working capital and other productive resources for the poor and the marginalized including women. The program supported 547,094 workers in 2010-2015, 19% of them women. 12.4 DOLE’s Sustainable Livelihood Program promotes women’s leadership roles within their communities and their involvement in decision-making for community development policies and programs. 12.5 DOLE also implements a support program for women sugar workers and landless seasonal field workers, and has helped 6,165 beneficiaries from 2010 -2015. Programs to address women’s vulnerability include: • Reduction of service requirement to qualify for maternity leave benefits from 4 months to 3 months. • Advanced payment of maternity benefit on the seventh month of pregnancy instead of upon delivery. (c) address the high unemployment rate of women, reduce the wage gap between women and men and eliminate horizontal and vertical segregation in the labour market 12.6 Programs to address above issues: • DOLE’s Jobstart, Phil-Jobnet and Government Internship Program • DSWD’s Sustainable Livelihood Program (d) number of reported cases of sexual harassment in the workplace and the measures taken to prevent and punish such acts 12.7 The Civil Service Commission (CSC) received 14 sexual harassment cases from 2013-2015, 12 cases have so far been resolved while 2 are still pending. 11 of the resolved cases favoured the complainants and 1 favoured the respondent. 18/33 16-06662