Monthly Archives: May 2012

DAVAO CITY—More young males are coming out to seek testing for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as government statistics have begun to show a widening spread of the virus among males who have been having homosexual contact for the last four years.

MANILA, Philippines – The military will not discriminate against gays who seek to enter the service as long as they comply with the necessary requirements imposed on all applicants.

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United Nations member countries should call on the Philippine government during its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council to honor its commitments to ensure accountability for serious human rights abuses.

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MANILA, Philippines—The hike in the minimum wage in Metro Manila is not expected to have a major effect on consumer prices in the country, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

GALICIA was accompanied by her son when she accepted the Paccal award. CEBU CITY—When she first worked at a nursing home in Wayne, New Jersey, Evelyn Galicia had to contend with discrimination from her coworkers.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) expressed dismay over the announced wage increase of two-tranche thirty pesos in COLA only for minimum wage earners in the National Capital Region.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is making progress in maternal health but needs to accelerate improvements, said the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) who is in the Philippines to meet with government officials, including President Benigno Aquino III.

MANILA — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) spearheaded on Friday the simultaneous nationwide launching of its campaign for child labor-free barangays as part of the overall program for the prevention and progressive elimination of child labor in the country.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said workers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) could expect an additional income on their next pay day after the regional wage board approved an P8 wage hike in the  said region.

METRO Manila’s wage board has approved a 30-peso increase in the daily minimum pay of the workers in the metropolis, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said Friday.

Critics expect higher fees, service cuts for poor patients TWO lawmakers on Friday denounced the planned withdrawal of some P4.7 billion in subsidies from 26 of the biggest public hospitals after a House panel approved their conversion into corporations to raise their own revenue from paying patients.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Friday disclosed that its Philippine office raised $28.5 million in the year to date, and that the money will be used to promote reproductive and maternal health, one of the country’s Millennium Development Goals.

The Philippines is now in a transition to a two-tiered wage system with the effectivity of the wage order of the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board-Region IV-A (Southern Tagalog), according to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz.

MANILA, Philippines—Sixty women, 19 of them minors, were rescued from prostitution by the National Bureau of Investigation in a raid on a Parañaque club at the start of the month.

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MANILA — The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) is gearing to develop ethical guidelines for household employers of domestic workers to engender the protection of domestic workers’ rights, promote their welfare, and ensure a more harmonious relationship with their employers.

This early, it is commendable of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to cleanse their official registry of dubious and not exactly marginalized sectors of Philippine society as envisioned by our Constitution to be recognized as party-list organization. If Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes would have his way, the poll body seeks to reduce party-list groups to…

MANILA – The Philippine government said yesterday it plans to register an estimated 17 million undocumented workers so it can better address their needs.

With the first two-tiered wage order issued for Southern Luzon, the Philippines is now on its way to joining its “progressive” colleagues in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Department of Labor and Employment said.

TO help underprivileged but talented high-school graduates and college-level students land a good job, the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) on Wednesday formally launched the BPAP Careers for Street Kids Program.

MANILA. Philippines – Keeping up with its commitment to uphold human rights, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has joined labor groups in protecting workers’ rights.

Islamabad—Despite visible economic slowdown, the United Nations has informed the world that Asia-Pacific part of the globe would remain a strong anchor of global economic stability, a message that would surely take tycoons optimism to new heights amid maddening entrepreneural competitions. “Demand for its exports declines and capital costs rise” in Asia-Pacific region but despite…

Leaders of the House of Representatives on Sunday rejected the possibility of passing a measure to legalize same-sex marriage in the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – The labor department’s regional office in the Caraga region has rescued some 30 children from log hauling operations in Jabonga, Agusan del Norte, through its Sagip Batang Manggagawa program.

GENEVA (ILO News) – The transformation to a greener economy could generate 15 to 60 million additional jobs globally over the next two decades and lift tens of millions of workers out of poverty, according to a new report led by the Green Jobs Initiative.[1]

TAGUM CITY—Seven miners died while working inside a shaft in a small-scale mining area in Barangay Mat-i in Surigao City on Thursday,  police said.

TUCP President Ernesto F. Herrera and delegates to the TUCP Special Convention on March 16, 2012 welcomed a new project on social dialogue with the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) through the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center).

Jakarta : The Asia-Pacific region must continue to grow economically to lift millions of people out of poverty, but it must also respond to climate change to survive, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report released Thursday.