To spur economic growth and generate employment in the countryside, the country’s largest labor group pushed yesterday for greater empowerment of local government units (LGUs) under the new Constitution.
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said workers want greater autonomy for LGUs.
Alex Aguilar, TUCP spokesman, said the empowerment of LGUs is one of the Charter amendments the workers nationwide are pushing for at this time since they have been relying mostly on the national government.
“This has stunted economic growth and the job generation program in the provinces,” Aguilar explained.
He said even the resolution of labor disputes takes a long time because all cases have to resolve by the national government, particularly by the secretary of the Department of Labor.
“But if LGUs are be given greater power,” Aguilar said, “disputes can be resolved immediately and the economy as well as employment generation would greatly improved.”
He said the TUCP is pushing for economic benefits to be provided under the Constitution in a bid to alleviate the living condition of poor workers nationwide.
Aguilar said the TUCP is hoping that concerned agencies would also look into economic provisions of the Constitution, particularly foreign investors’ greater ownership of land and other properties in the country. – Mayen Jaymalin, Philippine Star
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Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
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First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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