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.
The Social Weather Station reports a 10-point decline in the net trust rating of President Rodrigo Duterte for the first quarter of 2018.
A former police officer tagged as Davao del Norte’s number 1 drug personality was arrested on Thursday in Panabo City.
At least 13 politicians are under the watchlist of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Regional Office 11.
The Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines (CBPC) said it hoped for a reconsideration on the Bureau of Immigration’s (BI) expulsion order on Australian nun Sr. Patricia Fox.
