It’s not much of a safety net but it is better than nothing.A P5,000 one-time cash aid will be given by the government to displaced private sector workers in areas placed under Ale…
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3 Cebu LGUs reach out to work-from-home workers
AT LEAST three local government units in Cebu are offering free Wi-Fi hotspots for their constituents.This is to accommodate the workers whose homes were badly damaged and had lost…
Tell it to SunStar: TUCP statement on the enactment of the Department of Migrant Workers
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines hails the enactment of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) as a legal and historic milestone in the struggle of our overseas Filipin…
Legislators push for P10,000 gift to gov’t contractual workers
HOUSE LEGISLATORS from the Makabayan bloc urged President Rodrigo R. Duterte to approve a P10,000 gratuity for government contractual workers for the holidays. The bloc filed House Resolution 2391 for the benefit of job order (JO) and contract of service (COS) government workers, saying these categories of employees need help with basic expenses. “While regularizing […]
Rama: Job order workers at City Hall might get higher Christmas bonus
CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama wants to increase the Christmas bonuses of job order (JO) employees at City Hall from P3,000 to P6,000. But Rama said he still needs to find out if increasing the bonuses for their JO workers is legal. If approved, it could benefit the city’s 4,700 JO workers currently working in […]
Toledo City Hall workers to get Christmas bonuses
A HAPPIER and merrier Christmas awaits the 500 regular employees and 2,000 job order workers of the Toledo City Government as they will receive cash bonuses during the holiday season. Each of the regular employees working at City Hall will receive two months’ worth of salary plus P30,000 in Christmas bonus. Aside from the city’s […]
Labor candidate for President to fund recovery with wealth tax
LABOR LEADER and Presidential candidate Leodigario Q. de Guzman said his P1-trillion recovery plan will be financed by a one-time 20% wealth tax on the 500 richest families in the Philippines, with relief measures to be focused on workers in financial distress due to the pandemic. “We are very confident that our campaign will touch […]
Transport, BPO, workers’ groups want IATF vax-for-work resolution junked
TRANSPORT, business process outsourcing, and workers’ groups on Friday urged the government to junk resolutions requiring COVID-19 vaccinations to work and to have access to services, with plans to stage a rally at the labor department on Monday. The online petition against Resolutions 148-B and 149 of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management […]
Gov’t may hire more workers to vaccinate children next month
THE GOVERNMENT may hire more vaccinators as the country starts giving minors coronavirus vaccine shots next month, according to the Department of Health (DoH). The workers are also needed to help give health workers, senior citizens and seriously ill people booster shots, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario S. Vergeire told the ABS-CBN News Channel on Thursday. […]
Ethical recruitment to address healthcare staffing gaps
By Patricia B. Mirasol THE HEALTHCARE staffing shortage can be addressed through ethical and sustainable recruitment practices, according to Connie B. Dela Cruz, co-founder and chairman of Health Carousel Philippines, a POEA (Philippine Overseas Employment Administration)-licensed staffing firm. Ethical recruitment refers to the hiring of workers in a way that protects the rights of each stakeholder in the recruitment […]
DTI sees most NCR displaced workers resuming employment
MOST of the workers in Metro Manila who were displaced by the pandemic are expected to return to the workforce with the reopening of industry and the lowering of the region’s alert level, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said. It said the displaced workers number about 300,000. It gave no details on exactly […]
Shipyard workers ask Duterte to stop Consolacion recla project
AROUND 2,000 shipyard workers in Barangay Tayud, Consolacion are asking President Rodrigo Duterte to stop the implementation of a 234.80-hectare Seafront City reclamation project in the town. In their letter to Duterte, the shipyard workers said should the shorelines of the barangay be reclaimed, they will be left without a source of income. “What will […]
Cebu tourism workers vaxxed
Ninety-three percent of workers in Department of Tourism (DOT)-accredited sectors in Cebu have been fully vaccinated, according to data from the DOT 7. Records show that as of Oct. 6, 2021, a total of 7,893 active tourism workers in the province of Cebu— including the cities of Cebu, Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue— have been vaccinated. These […]
Construction workers in Mandaue, Dumaguete get Covid-19 jabs
ALMOST 500 workers in the construction sector recently received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine during the simultaneous inoculation rollout headed by the Department of Labor and Employment Region 7 (Dole 7) in the cities of Mandaue and Dumaguete, the first identified local government units (LGUs) to host the project. About 179 workers received their […]
Habitat for Humanity Report: Construction is Vast Source of Jobs in Emerging Markets
ATLANTA, GA, Oct 4, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The construction industry — led by homebuilding — is a large, often-overlooked source of jobs in emerging market economies, according to a report (https://www.habitat.org/sites/default/files/documents/A-Ladder-Up_Report.pdf) released today by Habitat for Humanity to mark World Habitat Day. Every $1 million in construction output creates an average […]
DBM releases additional P451 million for health workers’ risk allowances
THE DEPARTMENT of Budget and Management (DBM) has released an additional P451.3 million for the special risk allowances (SRA) of health workers assigned to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) wards. The DBM said in a statement Wednesday that P407.08 million was sourced from the contingent fund of the national budget, while the remaining P44.23 million was […]
Cebu tourism to receive 20K vax doses weekly, says DOT chief
VACCINATE all tourism workers in Cebu by the end of October 2021. This was the challenge posed by Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat during the ceremonial vaccination of Cebu tourism workers on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021 in Oakridge Buisness Park, Mandaue City. To achieve this, Puyat said Cebu will have a weekly allocation of 20,000 vaccines […]
Business, unions lobby for bigger role in job task force
BUSINESS GROUPS and trade unions said they need to be able to participate at the working-group level in preparing the National Government’s employment recovery plan. The organizations said in a statement Tuesday that the National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS) task force should have dialogue with employers and workers groups. “The engagement of the task force […]
PHL posts record daily coronavirus tally; HK bans PAL
PHILIPPINE health authorities reported 22,366 coronavirus infections on Monday — a record since the pandemic started last year — bringing the total to 1.98 million. The death toll rose to 33,330 after 222 more patients died, while recoveries increased by 16,864 to 1.8 million, the Department of Health (DoH) said in a bulletin. There were […]
4,000 Baguio tourism workers lined up for vaccination
BAGUIO CITY, one of the most popular tourist destinations in northern Luzon, is vaccinating 4,000 of its more than 5,000 tourism sector workers from Monday to Wednesday. “Earlier, the local tourism industry stakeholders disclosed that only 454 or 8.3% of the registered 5,458 workers in the different tourism-related establishments had been vaccinated since the roll-out of the government’s […]