An Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) personnel assists one of the 138 repatriated Overseas Filipino Worker who arrived in Davao City direct from Dhaka, Bangladesh last July 15. City Mayor Sara Duterte said three OFWs from the Dhaka flight tested positive for Covid-19. (Keith Bacongco)...
More than half of the 11,620 tourism workers on the world-famous Boracay Island will get fully vaccinated soon from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Sinovac vaccines (Keith Bacongco/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) This, after Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat bared...
Josephine Lucero, 56, a person with disability (PWD) has been fighting for workers' rights since the 1980s. She is an amputee and has been fighting for the causes she believes in while hobbling on crutches with other street protesters. Lucero and her daughter joined groups of protesters during...
Filipino health workers on Monday, July 26, gave President Rodrigo Duterte's pandemic response a "failing" mark. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement, the Alliance Health Workers (AHW) lamented Duterte's "gross neglect" in ensuring the safety, protection, and welfare of the public against...
Senate leaders on Monday, July 26, promised to act on President Duterte's call for the passage of a law that would create the Department of Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos (DMWOF). (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) During his sixth and last SONA, Duterte reiterated his appeal to...
Senator Grace Poe was apparently not satisfed with President Duterte's sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA), saying it failed to specifically spell out plans to help pandemic-hit families and workers, health frontliners, as well as children who endure challenges in learning amid the...
President Duterte thanked health workers and other frontliners, the private sector, and the local government units (LGU) who helped in the country’s fight against COVID-19 during his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City on Monday, July 26....
Over 100 doctors and nurses from San Miguel Corporation (SMC) were deployed to 11 Metro Manila vaccination sites that include Mandaluyong City, Malabon City, and Quezon City to help the government in its intensified COVID-19 vaccine rollout. (MB/ FILE PHOTO) The Department of Health (DOH) said...
Senator Joel Villanueva is calling on the Department of Health (DOH) to step up its hiring of health personnel by taking in nurses who recently passed the licensure exams. Senator Joel Villanueva (Senate of the Philippines) The chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor issued the appeal on Friday,...
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...
