The season of gifts and gift-giving is again upon us. To avoid “temptations” that may turn this holiday custom into a form of corruption, the Labor Department has suspended labor inspections from Dec. 1 to mid-January.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz issued Administrative Order No. 443, which effectively allows the resumption of inspections on Jan. 17.
“I have ordered a suspension of all labor inspection activities, including the conduct of Training and Advisory Visits (TAVs) and Self-Assessment (SA) activities, in all of the country’s 16 regions effective 1 December 2010 until 14 January 2011,” Baldoz said after issuing the order, in an article posted late Saturday on the DOLE website.
She said the order aims “to uphold the integrity of labor standards enforcement by precluding opportunities and temptations for abuse of the inspection power during the Christmas and New Year holidays.”
Under the order, the period when labor inspections are suspended will instead be used for the disposition of pending labor standards cases.
But Baldoz cited three exemptions from the suspension of inspections:
1. The investigation of labor standards complaints which shall in all cases be speedily disposed of;
2. Technical safety inspections covering mechanical equipment and electrical wiring installation; and
3. Urgent inspections or technical assistance visits that may be called for because of compelling circumstances, in which case, the DOLE Regional Office shall seek the approval of the Secretary of Labor and Employment before any such inspection or TAV activity may be conducted.
Baldoz ordered concerned DOLE Regional Offices to accomplish reports on the activities not covered by the suspension as required under existing rules and regulations.– MRT, GMANews.TV
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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