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By Samuel P. Medenilla, Business Mirror, Feb 6, 2018 While the contractualization issue has polarized employers and employees, it also bonded moderate and labor groups that they are staging a joint rally today (Wednesday) to press President Duterte to choose the executive order (EO) they prefer over the draft EO being supported by business groups.
By Bob Egelko, Feb 5, 2019 Employees who are required to stay “on call” before the start of a possible work shift — phoning their employer two hours before the shift to learn whether they’re needed — are entitled to be paid for that two-hour period regardless of whether they’re called in to work, a…
By: Pathricia Ann V. Roxas, INQUIRER.net, Feb 04, 2019 MANILA, Philippines – The House of Representatives on Monday unanimously approved on third and final reading House Bill 7030 or the “Anti-Elder Abuse Act.”
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by Iris Gonzales, The Philippine Star, Feb 4, 2019 I can’t count how many cigarettes I’ve smoked in my life, but every stick marked something big or bizarre – a heartbreaking story, a bloodied body I saw, a breathtaking mountain that made me gasp, or a quarrel with a lover.
by Lawrence Agcaoili, The Philippine Star, Feb 4, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has explained to Malacañang why the upper end of the inflation target was breached for the first time in a decade as the rise in consumer prices kicked up to 5.2 percent last year from 2.9 percent…
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by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), Feb 3, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Local tobacco farmers are urging the government to hold back on further increasing excise taxes on alcohol and cigarettes to allow them to stay afloat.
by Iris Gonzales, The Philippine Star, Feb 3, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Ayala and Yuchengco Groups have executed their plan to merge their education units after obtaining the approval of the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC).
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The company has won two patents for a wristband that could track workers’ movements and breaks. It was unclear if Amazon planned to actually manufacture the tracking device and have employees wear it. Amazon already has a reputation for a workplace culture that thrives on a hard-hitting management style. by Ceylan Yeginsu, The New York…
by Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star) – Feb 1, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos have further upped their game in terms of spending time online as the Philippines dethroned Thailand to become the world’s heaviest users of the internet.
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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