The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is expected to bring home more than 7,000 stranded overseas Filipinos this month through a combination of chartered and Bayanihan flights. Photos of stranded Filipinos preparing to board a repatriation flight from Dubai last week. (DFA) This is despite the...
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat is pushing to inoculate more tourism workers in various destinations in the country to restore the public's confidence to travel and help in the industry's recovery from the pandemic. A tourism worker receives his first dose of COVID-19...
Senator Joel Villanueva has assured that the proposed Department of Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos (DMWOF) will push for job creation in the Philippines that going abroad to work "will just be a choice" to Filipinos. Senator Joel Villanueva speaks during a Senate hearing on February 24,...
The vaccination rollout of the local government of Angono, Rizal resumed on Thursday, August 5 by opening the vaccination site to essential workers or those in the A4 Category. Residents of Angono wait for their turn to get vaccinated at SM Center Angono in Rizal Province. (Photo from the Angono...
President Duterte is hoping the country's agreement with the United Kingdom on the hiring of Filipino medical professionals will be finalized soon. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) The President has pushed for a "fair, ethical, and sustainable" labor accord between the two...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has started inoculating tourism workers on the island province of Palawan in order to protect them from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Puerto Princesa City Mayor Lucilo Bayron; testing czar, National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 Deputy Chief Implementer...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will ask the national government for an additional budget of P2 billion in order to sustain its one-time cash assistance program for workers who have been affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III...
Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday, August 3, told the officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) not to wait for the Senate to investigate them over the delay in the reimbursements and release of the benefits for hospitals and...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director-General Eric Domingo The Delta variant of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was not as contagious among healthcare workers of the Philippine General Hospital as most of them are vaccinated and observe health protocols, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
The upcoming two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) may lead to a rise in unemployment in the National Capital Region (NCR) at a time when employment numbers are already improving. A Philippine National Police (PNP) member mans a checkpoint at a barangay in Sampaloc, Manila after it was...
The bill granting night shift differential pay to government employees, including those working in government owned and controlled corporations or GOCCs, has been approved on third and final reading by the House of Representatives on Monday, August 2. House of Representatives (Alvin Kasiban/MANILA...
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) announced Saturday, July 31, that its partners from private sectors will be extending special promos and discounts to all government workers for the whole month of September. (CSC Facebook page) The CSC said Anthony Audio Speakers Hardware and Electronics is...