Senator Nancy Binay on Saturday, April 30, sent her ‘’highest praise and admiration’’ to all Filipino workers in celebration of Labor Day. In a statement a day ahead of Labor Day on May 1, Binay told Filipino workers, ‘’Your tireless perseverance and sacrifice ensure the health, food,...
More than 647,000 personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) will serve as poll workers during the election day on May 9. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Given this, DepEd assured that it will provide support and necessary assistance to the participating personnel as part of the agency’s...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Friday commended President Duterte for signing into law Republic Act No. 11712 or the Public Health Emergency Benefits and Allowances for Health Care Workers Act saying it would provide continuing support to the country’s health care workers amid the ongoing...
Re-electionist Senator Joel Villanueva on Friday, April 29 cautioned the Transition Committee establishing the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) in making the next steps to fully constitute the agency orderly but expediently. “The Transition Committee should aim for a speedy and orderly...
President Duterte has signed into law the measure, which grants the mandatory continuing benefits to public and private healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies of a national scale. (JANSEN ROMERO/MANILA BULLETIN) Duterte signed Republic Act (RA) No....
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday urged President Duterte to end the confusion caused by the appointment of his former adviser Abdullah Mama-o, as secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers, which has yet to be constituted. Drilon also said he supports Labor Secretary Silvestre...
The Church People-Workers Solidarity (CWS) has asked voters to consider candidates in the May 2022 polls that prioritize and advance the labor agenda. Church People-Workers Solidarity FB The group noted how in previous elections, national candidates have made bold promises of abolishing all forms...
The Department of Finance (DOF) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) should give lawmakers their proposals on how poll workers, including public school teachers, can receive the full amount of their honoraria, allowances, and other benefits, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said on Tuesday. Gatchalian,...
Nurses in PPEs Healthcare workers were urged to receive their Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to increase their protection against the dreaded disease. Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said about half of the fully-vaccinated medical workers in the country have yet to...
Following Bayan Muna's resolution alleging that the absentee voting in Hong Kong (HK) were “chaotic and disorganized,” Consulate General of the Philippines in HK Consul General Raly L. Tejada denied the claims made by the party-list. (Photo courtesy of Raly Tejada/ Philippine Consulate General...
Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez said the new 15 active cases of Covid-19 recorded in Barangay Tambo are all Chinese nationals and working in the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) industry. Olivarez said the POGO workers were immediately brought to the city’s isolation facility for...
Independent presidential candidate Senator Panfilo ‘Ping’ M. Lacson has guaranteed that the new Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Act, which seeks to protect overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), would be properly implemented under his administration to prevent past cases of neglect and abuse...
