Electronics and semiconductor firms have started recalling 7,000 workers that were earlier displaced due to the global economic crisis.
This was confirmed yesterday by Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza) director general Lilia de Lima at the sidelines of the 2009 Investors Recognition Day held at the World Trade Center in Pasay City where she shared news coming from electronics companies that buyers abroad have started to renew contracts and would intend to get workers who were ordered forced leave.
This was the feedback given to her by companies mostly located in the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) during the Electronics Industry General Membership meeting last week.
These companies were the first to be affected by the global financial slowdown and among the sectors who have laid off thousands of workers, she added.
In Calabarzon alone, over 16,000 workers were retrenched at the start of the year. But with business getting better toward the end of the 1st quarter, over 9,000 were now reporting back to work.
De Lima hopes to see the remaining displaced workers back on their jobs by the next half of the year.–Ayen Infante, Daily Tribune
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International Equal Pay Day
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For widespread, practical equality!”
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to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
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September –
5 Sept – Intl Day of Charity
7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
18 Sept – International Equal Pay Day
21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
27 Sept – World Tourism Day
28 Sept – International Day for Universal Access to Information
29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
30 Sept – World Maritime Day
Monthly Observances:
Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
Weekly Observances:
Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
Daily Observances:
Third Saturday:
International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
Sept 8: National Literacy Day
Sept 15: Philippine Medicine Day
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