CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 social welfare department reports that of the total 41,943 barangays, 37,422 have day care centers, of which 24,026 provide quality day care services. In 2000, a total of 302,874 preschool children were served by the centers. Despite criticisms that day-care centers provide only little time-off for women to really enable them to undertake gainful employment, this still gives women with young children some time to do other things for themselves if not for income-generation. 377. The Public Employment Service Office (PESO) is a one-stop center created to provide employment information and assistance to labor department clients and constituents of local governments. As noted in paragraph 302, PESO offers employment referral services, such as local and overseas wage employment facilitation, self-employment and livelihood facilitation, and employability enhancement; recruitment assistance for employers; and employment information and guidance services. In the first half of 2001, a total of 456,272 applicants registered, of which 320,123 were placed/assisted. About 50.2 percent of the job placements went to women, but this was still low as more women than men applied with PESO. 378. In 2002, the social welfare department launched a pilot project on night care for children of working women in the night shift. It provides childcare services in an effort to prevent violence against women (for neglecting their children) and abuse and neglect of young children. Addressing sexual harassment in the workplace and occupational health and safety 379. The Philippines began implementation of the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act in the late 1990s. The Civil Service Commission (CSC) took the lead, instructing government agencies to create a Committee on Decorum and Investigation (CODI) that will address sexual harassment complaints. Guided by the law and CSC rules, the committee defines the offense, identifies specific acts and forms of sexual harassment, and applies penalties depending on the form and gravity of the offense and procedures for the disposition of cases. From 1994 to April 2000, the CSC has received 38 complaints. A total of 15 respondents were dismissed from the service; seven were suspended for periods ranging from three months to one year; and two were acquitted. Fourteen of the cases were dismissed for various reasons, including lack of prima facie case, forum shopping and desistance of complaint. As of 2002, there were 40 cases of sexual harassment filed. Of these, 27 cases were decided in favor of complainants: 17 perpetrators were dismissed from service while 10 were suspended (CSC, 2002). 380. In 1997, the Bureau of Women and Young Workers conducted a series of seminars to train CODI members from the private sector in the handling of sexual harassment cases. Since then, labor unions and NGOs have led the campaign against sexual harassment. The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines-affiliated Disadvantaged Women (DAW) Coalition conducted orientation sessions with management and workers in unionized and non-unionized plants and distributed pamphlets on salient points of the law. In collaboration with PEZA, the Coalition held a number of the sessions for firms in the ecozones (see discussion in paragraph 392 below). By early 2002, some 259 unions or firms had reportedly created their CODI and formulated their anti-sexual harassment policies; 432 sexual harassment cases were being investigated; and 20 complaints formalized. Eight CBAs had included sexual harassment provisions. Although the Coalition is striving to track the progress of their advocacy on sexual 104