Monthly Archives: June 2019

Despite robust growth, income inequality widening — NEDA

By Rea Cu, Business Mirror, Jun 17, 2019 RELEASES under the Social Security System’s Pension Loan Program (PLP) have hit the P1-billion mark, with around 42,000 people availing since its implementation in September 2018, the SSS reported on Sunday.

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25 May 2019 – THESE CONTRACTUALS ARE STILL CONTRACTUALS, EVEN WITH THOSE ANNOUNCEMENTS OF REGULARIZATION. I pass by this name mall along EDSA everyday. And I see this long line of workers in different uniforms [Read more.]

It’s good jobs, stupid … which are “xxx the best way to generate shared prosperity xxx.”

Twenty-four workers were killed, thirteen workers were injured and six missing in 18 serious workplace incidents in the Philippines in January – May 2019 – an NTUC Philippines compilation of media reports show. Most of those killed were in Mining (seven) and Construction (four). Four workers died, eight were injured and three (corrected) were missing…

Lineman dead in fall from tree URBIZTONDO, Pangasinan, Philippines — A television lineman died after he fell from a tree while installing cables in Barangay Dalanguiring in this town on Tuesday.

by Manila Standard, Jun 16, 2019 Employers in the private sector were urged by the labor department to uphold the rights of the Filipino workers to security of tenure and help the government to curb illegal forms of contractualization or ‘endo.’

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by Manila Standard, Jun 16, 2019 The Association of Concerned Teachers partylist countered DepEd’s claim that teachers are taken cared of with the doubling of their salaries in two decades by raising the fact that salaries of cabinet members increased by 570% and the president’s basic pay by 606% since 2000.

LIVING WAGES, REAL END TO ENDO, MORE PARTICIPATION, NO GBV, A DECENT FUTURE OF WORK, END INEQUALITY! 15 June 2019 — “LIVING WAGES, REAL END TO ENDO, MORE PARTICIPATION, NO GBV, A DECENT FUTURE OF WORK, END INEQUALITY!” were the resounding themes in the National Trade Union Seminars on Employment Security and Constructive Industrial Relations…

by Consuelo Marquez, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 15, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has vowed to push for the granting of hazard pay and more benefits for the agency’s traffic enforcers.

By: Mahar Mangahas, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 15, 2019 Of the estimated 30.6 million adult Filipino users of the internet—see “First Quarter 2019 Social Weather Survey: Internet usage steady at 46% of adult Filipinos,” www.sws.org.ph, 6/4/19—virtually all have Facebook (FB). It is three times as popular as YouTube.

by Yongping Zhai, Jun 14, 2019 As the world responds to climate change, energy systems are evolving, and fast. The past 10 years have seen the rise (and dramatic cost reduction) of renewables such as wind and solar, to the extent that they are no longer considered ‘alternative’ energy.

By Dan Murtaugh, Jun 14, 2019 Hydrogen, which has been touted as the fuel of the future much of the past five decades, may finally be on the verge of converting its potential to reality.

by Eva Visperas (The Philippine Star), Jun 13, 2019 URBIZTONDO, Pangasinan, Philippines — A television lineman died after he fell from a tree while installing cables in Barangay Dalanguiring in this town on Tuesday.

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by Margaret Claire Layug/NB, GMA News, Jun 12, 2019 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is planning to “slow down” the deployment of nurses abroad as there was a “great need” for people with the said profession locally.

By Elijah Felice Rosales, Business Mirror, Jun 12, 2019 Workers cook brown sugar in a factory in Bacolod, Negros Occidental. Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez told the BusinessMirror the government remains firm in keeping sugar prices low by shunning plans to liberalize the sugar trade industry.

Letter to DOLE on Leonides Dennis Sequeña Justice for PMP labour organizer, Leonides “Dennis” Sequeña, shot by an unidentified gunman while attending a workers meeting in Cavite on 2 June 2019

by Business World, Jun 12, 2019 THE Department of Finance (DoF) has been ordered to step up its legislative liaison activities to ensure the passage of the remaining tax reform packages, ahead of the opening of the 18th Congrss on July 22, among other priorities that include exploring import liberalization for more agricultural products and…

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BY BEN KRITZ, TMT, Manila Times, Jun 11, 2019 IF it seems to be a little more difficult to get around town starting this week, it is likely because ride-hailing service Grab was to have removed about 8,000 active drivers from its platform on Monday due to those operators not obtaining a transport network vehicle…

BUTUAN CITY, June 7 (PIA) — Union members from the different national unions under the National Trade Union Center (NTUC) are pushing for decent work, including living wages, and job security for employees. In the recent workshop on Employment Security and Constructive Industrial Relations held in Quezon City, NTUC union members called on the national…

By: Daxim L. Lucas, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 10, 2019 MANILA, Philippines—The flow of job-creating investments into the Philippines slowed in the first quarter of the year after going strong in 2018, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

LOANS FROM GSIS, ACCREDITED LENDERS By: Matthew Reysio-Cruz, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 10, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Public school teachers owe a combined debt of at least P319 billion, an increase of P18 billion in just over two years, according to the Department of Education (DepEd).

by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), Jun 10, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Nearly three months since the opening of the rice market, local consumers continue to enjoy lower prices, but farmers remain to be at the losing end.

by Iris Gonzales (The Philippine Star), Jun 10, 2019 Blames ‘regulatory inertia’ for project delays MANILA, Philippines — Diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp., the country’s biggest power producer, has warned of regular rotating blackouts in Luzon due to the “regulatory inertia” that has prevented the construction of new power plants.