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Workers double their time to complete the construction for the underground cabling near Davao City hall before the start of Kadayawan festival on August 17. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

No total ban of contractualization under DOLE’s ‘DO 30’

The government will be issuing a new labor policy aimed at modifying, not ending, the present labor contractualization laws.

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Read more about the article Workers to Duterte: we are not asking for managerial pay
Workers wear shirts with their calls to raise the national minimum wage to P750 for the private sector and P16,000 for the public sector.

Workers to Duterte: we are not asking for managerial pay

Calling it as “immediate relief” for low wage earners, Jerome Adonis, secretary-general of KMU and convener of the All Workers Unity, said it is high time that a national minimum wage of P750 for workers in the private sector and P16,000 for government workers should be implemented.

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Read more about the article Court rules Nakashin dispute civil, orders barricade dispersal
NAKASHIN WORKER. Estella Mae L. Partoza, one of the 75 dismissed workers of the Japanese-owned company Nakashin Davao International holds the video recording of the dispersal of the protest camp that they have put up since April 25. The dispersal happened after the Regional Trial Court ruled the strike illegal and the dispute civil, not of labor, in nature. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Court rules Nakashin dispute civil, orders barricade dispersal

Police dismantled the barricades blocking the gates of the Nakashin Davao International's office in Malagamot here on Thursday, September 15 after the Regional Trial Court ruled that the protest of the striking workers illegal.

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Read more about the article ‘Ordinary people can be heroes, too’
STREET SWEEPERS. Workers of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office immediately clean the streets in the downtown area of Davao City immediately after the floral float parade during the Pamulak sa Kadayawan on Sunday, August 21, 2016. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

‘Ordinary people can be heroes, too’

“Even ordinary Dabawenyos can become heroes -- a government official, a police officer, a teacher, a traffic enforcer, an overseas Filipinos worker, a 'kasambahay', a father, a mother, everyone.”

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Read more about the article OFW groups divided over one-stop shop
Migrante chairperson Connie Bragas Regalado retells the tale of Mary Jane Veloso, the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) who Migrante helped save from the Indonesian death row last April this year, during the launching of Tanggol Migrante in Davao City. Tanggol Migrante will bring Migrante Partylist's already existing services such as paralegal, medical, and psychological counselling, education of rights, among others to the OFWs and their families. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

OFW groups divided over one-stop shop

The Department of Labor and Employment, through the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, has formally opened the One-Stop Service Center for OFWs or the OSSCO to streamline government services that cater to the needs of OFWs on Monday, August 15.

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