A progressive party-list lawmaker on Wednesday downplayed as “misleading” and “deceptive” the Office of the Solicitor General’s (OSG) defense that the government’s P200 financial aid was enough to guard poor Filipino families against the inflationary impacts of the Duterte administration’s tax reform program.
The Philippines National Police in Davao region has recommended 251 villages to be placed under the Election Watchlist Areas or EWAS for the 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Elections.
Three major labor federations march alongside each other in the streets here on May 1 to denounce President Rodrigo Duterte’s failure to fulfill his campaign promise to stop any form of labor-only contracting in the country.
Around 3,000 workers from all over Southern Mindanao eventually made it the protest march here on Labor Day despite holding for hours the throng of mostly plantation workers in a highway in three provinces in the Davao Region.
There is no need for Pres. Rodrigo Duterte to sign an executive order (EO) or for Congress to pass a legislation banning the illegal contractualization of workers since the same law has already been stipulated in Article 106 of the Philippine Labor Code, a labor group leader said on Tuesday, May 1.
As thousands of labor groups troop to the streets during the Labor Day protest on Tuesday, President Rodrigo Duterte has signed the executive order (EO) prohibiting illegal contracting, or subcontracting, and strengthening workers’ rights to security of tenure in the country.
Different unions in Compostela town staged a barricade along the national highway in Nabunturan town after police and government soldiers prevented them from going to Davao City for the Labor Day protest action.
Three labor organization in Mindanao are set to march together on the 132nd commemoration of Labor Day to express frustration on President Duterte’s failure to end contractualization.
The Philippine government’s total deployment ban of workers to Kuwait would stay unless a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on the treatment of Filipino workers in Kuwait is signed.
The New People’s Army (NPA) said one soldier was killed while several were wounded in two armed attacks against government soldiers in Davao Oriental.
