Workers are the primary social and economic force. However, they are the most vulnerable to the negative impacts of stiff competition and volatile economic conditions. When some enterprises go under, the creditors and government are the first to get their claims against bankrupt businesses.
“This unfair practice must be corrected in favor of workers” said Trade Union Congress Party-list Representative Raymond Democrito C. Mendoza after filing House Bill No. 6959 which calls for workers to be given first lien in case of bankruptcy to satisfy their money claims against the business.
“Dapat unahin ang mga manggagawa na bayaran sapagkat sila ang mas nangangailangan” declared Mendoza.
The bill also states that workers’ unpaid wages and monetary claims shall be paid in full even without formal declaration of bankruptcy or insolvency before claims of the government and other creditors may be paid.
Moreover, Mendoza insisted that when the business is no longer existing and/or unable to satisfy the monetary claims of the worker or workers, the officers shall be held liable for acting on behalf of the business. “Kailangang may hahabulin at mananagot sa mga manggagawa” Mendoza added.
The TUCP Party-List represents the largest organized labor in the country and is aggressively pushing for the full protection of Filipino workers here and abroad.
“The present socio-economic structures are heavily in favor of capitalists and we in the TUCP Party-List will do everything we could to remedy this unjust situation” Mendoza emphasized.
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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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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