Monthly Archives: December 2010

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines (PAL) president and CEO Jaime Bautista together with Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez confirmed yesterday that all employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) at the airport would receive on Dec. 13 some P250,000 each from PAL and other foreign airlines for rendering overtime service for five months.

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LONDON – Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the United Kingdom have differing opinions on a mandatory HIV/AIDS test the government may consider as a requirement for every Filipino planning to work abroad.

MANILA, Philippines – The government should look into the practice of hospitals that require registered nurses to pay for their training, a health workers group said Saturday.

THE loopholes in the national housing system are to blame for the multi-billion-peso anomalies like the P9.7-billion questionable loan transactions between private developer Globe Asiatique and the state-run Pag-IBIG housing fund, former Vice President Noli de Castro said Thursday.

As part of the World AIDS Day celebration, Department of Health (DOH) HIV – AIDS Coordinator Myrna Alaba briefed department heads and city hall employees of Dumaguete that Central Visayas is second in terms of number of HIV-AIDS cases in the Philippines.

10 December 2010: Fundamental human rights are under attack in every region of the world, and respect for workers’ rights in particular is being undermined as working people are increasingly forced to bear the burden of the global economic crisis, in contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other UN and International Labour…

In a bid to address India’s worsening unemployment problem, the Indian government has ruled that it will issue employment visas only to migrant workers hired for highly skilled jobs that earn an annual salary of over US$25,000.

Multilateral lender International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday upgraded to 5 percent its 2011 growth forecast for the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) from an earlier forecast of 4.5 percent.

Change in policy stance needed to ward off inflation risks MANILA, Philippines – The country may have to start raising interest rates soon from the current record low of 4% to ward off inflation risks coming from strong liquidity, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC Online 191/101210 Press advisory: Trade unions tell ASEM Labour Ministers to act on social protection and Green Jobs (Brussels, 10 December 2010): On Sunday 12 December, trade unions from Asia and Europe will meet with Labour Ministers and employers’ representatives on the eve of the 3rd ASEM Labour and…

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Department of Health (DoH) has included in its strategies in achieving the Reproductive Health (RH) policy by 2015 the training of traditional birth attendants or the “hilot” to become part of the professional medical teams assigned in the rural areas.

More than 3,000 military and police personnel have been accused of human rights violations since 2005, with a “very dismal” rate of conviction.

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Govt fight against graft ‘ineffective’ THE level  of corruption in the Philippines worsened in the past three years as government’s action in the fight against corruption was “ineffective,” according to a Transparency International  (TI) survey.

Surigao City (December 9) — The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and the Workers Development Foundation Inc. (WDFI) with assistance from the International Trade Union Confederation-Asia Pacific (ITUC-AP) through the ITUC-AP Youth Committee will hold a workshop on “Advancing Decent Work through the Global Jobs Pact and the Social Protection Floor” on Dec.…

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga, Philippines — President Aquino said here that the P271.67 billion education appropriation in the 2011 budget, already passed in the Senate, surpasses the education allocations of any of his predecessors.

MANILA, Philippines – Congressmen discovered yesterday that the huge salaries and allowances in at least two government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) are without legal basis.

Press release prepared by the Department of Labor and Employment To help alleviate the plight of children engaged in hazardous and exploitative work, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will conduct a series of advocacy orientation on child labor based on Republic Act (RA) 9231, the law on the elimination of the worst forms…

OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines — City health officers here have stated that this city has not registered a single human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) patient in the last three years.

THIRTEEN out of 20 cities carried out regulatory reforms to make it easier to start and operate a business in their localities, according to a joint report of the International Finance Corp. (IFC) and World Bank. In their Doing Business in the Philippines 2011, IFC-World Bank said 65 percent of the cities benchmarked for the…

The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said the government is eyeing to cut the poverty incidence by half before President Benigno Aquino 3rd ends his term. “The official target that we have is the Millennium Development Goals. That’s essentially what we’re following. The government is committed to that, so in a way, that’s how…

THE Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday assured the public that they would do some preventive measures on all plastic toys that are being sold in the country now that the Christmas season is coming. Health Secretary Enrique Ona in a radio interview said that the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) would conduct tests to…

LOS ANGELES – Dozens of Filipino hospital workers in California sued their employer Tuesday, alleging they were the sole ethnic group targeted by a rule requiring them to speak only English.

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THE Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday assured the public that they would do some preventive measures on all plastic toys that are being sold in the country now that the Christmas season is coming. Health Secretary Enrique Ona in a radio interview said that the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) would conduct tests to…

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday warned against employers who failed to pay the mandatory 13th-month pay and asked workers to report to the department these violators for possible disciplinary actions. According to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz employers should not shirk from their obligation to release them the mandatory 13th-month pay this…

Cash register receipts and paper money have been found to contain high levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical linked to cancer, obesity and early puberty, a study published on Wednesday said.

THE Catholic Church and the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) have found a common ground to oppose the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill pending before Congress.