The Philippines will have a hard time handling an Indonesia-like coronavirus cases (COVID-19) surge driven by the more transmissible Delta variant, a group of health workers warned on Wednesday, July 21. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview with CNN Philippines, Alliance of Health Workers...
Senator Joel Villanueva on Monday, July 19, called on his colleagues in the Congress to pass the bill that would protect freelance workers after the reported suspension of a number of food delivery riders who demanded better salaries. Riders of online food delivery app Foodpanda in November, 2020...
Various health workers from public and private hospitals in Metro Manila have decried the non-release of their benefits as Bayanihan to Recover as One Act 2 (Bayanihan 2) ended. (Photo from AHW) According to the Alliance of Health Workers, as of June 30, some health workers from public hospitals...
The Philippines will waste no time in sending overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Israel following the lifitng of the temporary suspension of OFW deployment to that country. (Photo by Vitamina Poleznova/ Unsplash) In a statement Thursday, July 15, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary...
The Bureau of the Treasury is planning to sell the Philippine government’s first retail dollar-denominated bond (RDB) targeted mainly at overseas Filipino investors. During a virtual briefing on Thursday, July 15, National Treasurer Rosalia V. de Leon said the government is firming up the details...
Communication Undersecretary Kris Ablan said the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) has requested the addition of more plantilla positions in the agency so the contract of service (COS) employees can become regular workers. PCOO logo (file) Ablan made the statement after...
The emergence of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic made the United Kingdom (UK) realize just how important Filipino nurses and healthcare workers (HCWs) were to that country. (Screengrab from Zoom meeting) Thus, said Labor Attaché in London Amuerfina Reyes in a virtual press briefing...
At least 3,000 tourism workers from the world-famous Boracay Island in Aklan comprise the first batch of local workers that are set to be inoculated against the deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo from Department of Tourism) Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat...
Malacañang on Tuesday, July 6, warned Filipinos who will fake their vaccination cards for interzonal travel, saying that they will get imprisoned for a long time for falsifying a public document. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque made this warning as the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the...
Market vendors, truck drivers, helpers, pedicab drivers, and porters from Northern Luzon, Central Luzon and Southern Luzon have been inoculated against COVID-19 in Manila on Sunday night. (Manila Public Information Office photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The Manila city government has started the...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion How much does it cost every year to address and resolve maltreatment of Filipino women, mostly employed as domestic helpers, in the Middle East? More likely than not, this perplexing question will be glossed over by labor officials in favor of the multi-billion US dollars...
The government has declared June 19 of every year as "Filipino Social Workers' Day" in recognition of their role in providing social services to Filipinos. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) In Proclamation No. 1176, President Duterte directed the Department of Social Welfare and...
