Companies comply more to labor standards if workers are unionized, according to the Department of Labor and Employment.
A “dispatcher”, commonly known as barker, can earn a minimum of P200 after a few hours of calling passengers to ride public utility jeepneys or cabs.
Vacationers are starting to swell public bus and jeepney terminals on Saturday as the observance of the Holy Week began to peak.
Air Asia Philippines announced an alll-women crew to navigate many of their flights in the country, as it opened anew its operation here in Davao City on Friday.
Should the long dry spell caused by the El Niño phenomenon continue, it will affect at least 7,000 hectares of crops and 11,000 farmers in the city, the City agriculturist here said.
Netizens were outraged to learn that the government’s proposed internet speed for its free public wireless fidelity across the country will only offer an average speed of 256 kbps (kilobytes per second), a speed which internet users compare to a walking toddler.
The Davao City Tourism Office expect at least 100,000 visitors this month with the upcoming Araw ng Dabaw celebrations.
Women’s partylist Gabriela is not happy with the free train rides offered by the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) to all women on the observation of the International Women’s Day tomorrow.
A Moro human rights group says the “all-out” military operation in the Moro communities in Central Mindanao “is just to clear the way to the Liguasan Marsh for foreign countries to exploit”.
A city government official said he would asked City Hall authorities to increase the rent of night market stalls along Roxas Avenue here “to double the income of the city from the rent of these stalls”.
