THE HOUSE of Representatives has approved on second reading a measure that will establish an enterprise-based education and training program.

House Bill 10561 or the proposed Enterprise-Based Education and Training Program Act is a substitute bill to House Bill 3740.

The measure aims to produce well-trained and better equipped manpower capable of responding to the skill requirements and demands of employers and industries.

The bill also seeks to rationalize the manpower training system by consolidating apprenticeship, dual training, on-the-job training programs and all other forms of industry-based training arrangement.

The measure will establish a competency and enterprise-based training system involving the active cooperation of employers, workers, industry and the government.

The measure mandates the Technical Education Skills Development Authority to establish a registration mechanism and assign an office that shall process all enterprise-based education training programs.