Monthly Archives: May 2011

Manila, Philippines – The National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) reported yesterday that another regional wage board has granted a salary increase to minimum wage earners, this time in Eastern Visayas.

MANILA, Philippines — Young school leavers in Quezon City can look forward to learning a skill for free, getting a job, and another chance to return to school.

MANILA, Philippines, May 13, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Benigno Aquino told reporters today that groups threatening or calling for a tax boycott or other forms of civil disobedience if the controversial Reproductive Health bill is passed are courting sedition charges.

Philippines Health Report Reveals New 172 HIV Infected CasesA report by the Department of Health of 172 confirmed HIV cases in March, resulting in total figure of 483 HIV cases in first quarter of 2011, has sent jitters in Filipino. With the report hitting the corner of the society, a congressional review of the 1998…

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MANILA, Philippines — The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (Amcham) has urged the government to adjust minimum wages to be more at par with the regional middle-income economies and undertake measures to make business costs competitive.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) Friday insisted that the additional P22 cost of living allowance (CoLA) for minimum wage workers in Metro Manila is not tantamount to nothing despite not being included in the basic wage rate.

In its bid to drastically cut down the budget deficit as part of efforts to project an image it is managing the country’s financial deficit successfully, the Aquino administration has been depriving the Filipinos of essential basic services, House Minority Leader Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman said yesterday.

The congressional bicameral conference committee yesterday approved a bill creating a body that would oversee the operations of government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs).

Members of the House of Representatives are determined to pursue floor deliberations on the Reproductive Health (RH) bill next week despite the exposé the other day of Sen. Vicente Sotto III about the alleged corruption involving P423 million funds used to implement RH-related projects by the Department of Health (DoH).

INFLATION will be more stable in the second quarter of the year given the price movements in recent months, according to First Metro Investment Corp. and University of Asia and the Pacific (FMIC-UA&P).

Filipino Catholics will defy a reproductive health (RH) bill allowing artificial contraception if it becomes law, a bishop said Thursday.

At least P500-million in state subsidy for political parties or a total of P3 billion for the six major groups is high on the agenda of a House panel hearing on a bill that seeks to demolish political patronage, influence peddling and turncoatism.

The Senate and the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a Malacañang priority legislation, the proposed government-owned and controlled corporation governance act, which sets a one-year term for all-appointive executives of state corporations and prevent GOCC board members from awarding themselves with fat allowances and bonuses.

MANILA, Philippines –  Manuel Villar Jr. remained the richest senator, but his declared assets were reduced from close to P1 billion to about P725 million in the election year of 2010. His statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) showed Villar’s assets totaled P725,221,964 with no liabilities. Antonio Trillanes IV replaced Joker Arroyo in…

TAGBILARAN CITY, Philippines — Workers in Bohol may have to wait until legislators and concerned agencies finish the comprehensive review of the Labor Code, which must have been obsolete by now.

MANILA, Philippines – Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara said 1 of 5 firms in the country has not been following previous wage orders.

MANILA, Philippines—The P22-increase in the cost of living allowance of minimum wage earners may cause some small and medium businesses to fold up or explore other options to stay afloat, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines — Large-scale conversions of prime agricultural lands in Cavite, Isabela and Quezon into biofuel production areas undermine the agrarian reform program and endanger food security.

UPDATED 3:00 p.m. – The exposé of Senate majority leader Vicente Sotto III on an alleged P2.6-billion anomaly concerning allocations for family health programs may be part of a preemptive attack against the reproductive health (RH) program, a former Department of Health (DOH) Secretary said on Wednesday.

BAGUIO CITY, May 11 (PIA) – – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) submitted a petition for an P80 increase on the daily wage of workers in the region during the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board meeting yesterday at the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Regional Office.

MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) A labor group on Friday urged the government to approve the P75 across-the-board wage increase for Metro Manila workers and stressed that anything less than that is an “insult.”

Security guard si Manuel Abasola. Minimum wage earner siya at nagtitiyaga siyang mangupahan dito sa isang napakaliit na kuwarto. Sa P10,000 buwanang sahod, P5,000 lang ang naiuuwi niya dahil sa mga kaltas at utang.

MANILA, Philippines –  Workers in Metro Manila are unlikely to get additional pay. Ciriaco Lagunzad III, National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) executive director, yesterday said they usually dismiss a petition to reverse a wage board’s ruling.

ASEAN strategy to deal with climate change has been formulated in ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC), one of the three ASEAN pillars.

“At the moment we have meetings and meeting of officials and have firmed up the defense side by moving it from informal to formal, but there has been no [not] anything done jointly by ASEAN…”

Last week brought the highly welcome news of the untimely (i.e. long-overdue) demise of Osama bin Laden. Guided by intelligence obtained from al-Qaeda captives in Guantanamo through the rough interrogation methods sanctioned under George Bush, and using US Navy SEAL warriors run by a special operations command integrated under George Bush, the long arm of…

THE Department of Health (DOH)-Western Visayas now calls the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency (Aids) syndrome a “fast and furious” threats to human lives in the region from “hiding and growing” in 1984.

MANILA, Philippines– Heeding the call of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III for investment in this fast-developing archipelago, a major multinational did just that Tuesday with the inauguration of finance center hub here in a bid to catapult the company’s financial transactions and services across the Asia-Pacific Region.

3 other regions may follow NCR’s lead MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the P22 cost-of-living allowance (COLA) that the wage board in Metro Manila decided on Monday is already reasonable, meant only to cover the “supervening event.”