The Alliance of Concerned Teachers on Monday called on government to ensure funding for the implementation of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 151, a treaty that aims to protect government workers.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the labor department is coming up with an administrative order to direct all business establishment to grant rest periods for salesgirls including male employees.
While the government is yet to serve formal notice terminating the peace negotiation, Church leaders and peace advocates hope that this would also give them space for continuing the talks.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has only 574 labor law enforcers to do inspections and evaluation to about 937,000 business establishments all over the country.
THE EXPENDITURE totals usually don’t quite add up and tallies from different entities don’t match. But there is no question that among those who strike it big during elections are media outfits, and the 2016 polls proved no different.
Lumad groups are pressing for the arrest of militiaman Alde “Butsoy” Salusad, the leader of paramilitary group New Indigenous Peoples Army Reform which they say is responsible for the deaths of several Lumad leaders and the subsequent mass evacuations.
A total of 68 survivors and beneficiaries of the Roxas Avenue night market blast in Davao City received livelihood assistance from the donations gathered by the city government, Friday, August 11.
Government chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III said the government peace panel is still awaiting an order from President Rodrigo Duterte to formally cut the peace negotiations with the communists.
President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his previous statements he will go down from the Presidency if any of his children is proven to have been involved in graft and corruption.
The Department of Labor and Employment said it is ready to repatriate overseas Filipino workers from Guam should conflict arise in the United States territory following the military tension between the US and North Korea.
