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Read more about the article ASEAN meet to tackle migrant workers’ rights
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Senior Labor Officials join hands at the start of the two-day ASEAN Labor Ministers' Retreat at Marco Polo Hotel in Davao City on Sunday. From left: Abdul Mutalib POKSSDP Haji Mohd Yusof, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Brunei Darussalam; CHUOP Narath, Deputy Director General of Labour, Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, Cambodia; Maruli Apul Hasoloan, Director General, Manpower Placement Development and Job Opportunity Expansion, Ministry of Manpower, Indonesia; Phongsaysack INTHALATH, Director General of Labour Management Department, Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Lao PDR; Hans Leo Cacdac, Administrator, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Department of Labor and Employment, Philippines; Aubeck Kam, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of State (Manpower), Singapore; Dato' Mohd Jeffrey Bin Joakim, Director General of Labour, Department of Labour Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia; Khin Nway Oo, Deputy Director General ASEAN Unit, International Division, Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, Myanmar; Chaiyot Yousub, Director, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Labour, Thailand; Ta Thi Thanh Thuy, Head of Legislation Division, Department of Overseas Labor Administration, Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam and H.E. Vongthep Arthakaivalvatee and Deputy Secretary General, ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. (Photo by ASEAN Secretariat)

ASEAN meet to tackle migrant workers’ rights

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Labor Ministers’ Retreat and the 10th Meeting of the ASEAN Committee on Migrant Workers will review a Declaration signed ten years ago which provided for the rights of migrant workers.

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Read more about the article No total ban of contractualization under DOLE’s ‘DO 30’
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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