DOLE lifts ban on 48 firecracker factories

IT’S back to business for more than half of the 88 pyrotechnics and firecrackers establishments in Bulacan province that were covered by a nationwide work stoppage order (WSO) issued on November 25 by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) over a series of accidents that left five people dead and 30 others injured.

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd disclosed on Thursday that he ordered the WSO on 48 establishments lifted because “they were compliant with labor and occupational safety and health standards and other pertinent labor laws, rules and regulations.”