The Department of Education (DepEd) has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to provide additional pay for the teaching and non-teaching personnel who served as members of the Electoral Board amounting to P3,000. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Education Secretary Leonor Briones formally...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) has expressed its gratitude to the country’s health workers for their service amid the ongoing fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement on Thursday, May 12, DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III said that the health workers are “the backbone of our...
Senatorial candidate Sonny Matula on Monday, May 9, reminded employees that it is their right to vote and that they should report to the Federation of Free Workers (FFW), where he is president, if their employers tried to stop them from doing so. (Senate bet and labor leader Sonny Matula/Facebook)...
(JANSEN ROMERO/MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) has welcomed the move of President Duterte to sign into law a measure that grants mandatory continuing benefits to the country's medical workers during public health emergencies. Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11712 or the "Public...
(JANSEN ROMERO/MANILA BULLETIN) A group of medical workers has called on the government to increase the salary and improve the working conditions of the country’s health workers. The Alliance of Healthcare Workers (AHW) made the statement in time for the observance of the National Health Workers...
Better late than never, so it seemed, when President Duterte signed last week Republic Act 11712, or the “Public Health Emergency Benefits and Allowances for Health Care Workers Act.” This law grants mandatory continuing benefits to public and private health workers during the pandemic and...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte says that the Department of Health (DOH) will properly distribute Covid-19 benefits to healthcare workers (HCWs) under the newly-enacted Republic Act (RA) 11712. Passers-by walk in front of a mural depicting medical frontliners. (Photo by Jansen...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has called on members of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Transition Committee to settle their internal conflicts and remain true to their mandated duty of protecting and promoting the welfare of the Filipino migrant workers. Go, author and co-sponsor of...
Re-electionist Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday vowed to pursue measures institutionalizing tax cuts for work-from-home employees, additional benefits to construction workers, and condoning penalties for unpaid Social Security System (SSS) contributions of household employers. Gatchalian said...
Just in time for Labor Day, presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo promised labor groups on Sunday, May 1, that she will raise the minimum wage of Filipino workers. Vice President Leni Robredo addresses her supporters from the labor sector during the Labor Day event, dubbed as “A10 Ang...
Continuous efforts must be made to uphold the dignity of around 1.7 million government workers in the workplace, Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chairperson Karlo Alexei B. Nograles said during the celebration of Labor Day, Saturday, May 1. (Photo from Karlo Nograles' Facebook page/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
President Duterte on Labor Day honored all Filipino workers around the world as the citizenry's source of "immense pride" and "encouragement". President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) "I join the entire nation in honoring all our mighty Filipino workers through the celebration of this year's...
