Monthly Archives: August 2020

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com), 18 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Around 1 million young Filipinos are seen to lose their jobs this year, a direct result of the pandemic that prompted companies to lay off workers, cut work hours and freeze hiring of new graduates, a report released Tuesday said.

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by Delon Porcalla (The Philippine Star ), 18 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives under the leadership of Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano has decided to suspend the chamber’s sessions temporarily as cases of employees being infected by the coronavirus disease 2019 have reached 44 since mid-March.

By FEDERICO D. PASCUAL JR., Philippine STAR, 18 Aug 2020 THE resetting to Oct. 5 of the Aug. 24 start of the school year may look like a grace period, a welcome relief all around, but the seven-week extension still sees everybody cramming, as Filipinos are wont to do at the last minute.

By Patricia B. Mirasol, BusinessWorld, 17 Aug 2020 Employees who work from home (WFH) tend to work longer hours. According to a study by Harvard Business School, the pandemic workday is, on average, “48.5 minutes longer than usual. It also has 13% more meetings and 1.4 more daily emails.”

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By: Christia Marie Ramos, INQINQUIRER.net, 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Janitors, security guards and maintenance men working in public hospitals should also receive hazard pay from the government as they face similar health risks as medical frontliners amid the pandemic, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said Monday.

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by Neil Jayson Servallos (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police has posted 44 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019, bringing to 2,842 the total number of PNP personnel who have contracted COVID-19.

by Rudy Santos (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — More than a thousand Filipino seafarers have been recalled by foreign cruise line operators that will resume sailing to Europe and Mediterranean itineraries, but thousands more still have to wait another two to three months due to travel restrictions in other countries.

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by Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat, Manila Bulletin, 17 Aug 2020 Large and medium-sized private companies are required to designate a temporary isolation facility for employees needing further assessment for probable COVID infection, according to the latest Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) by the Department of Labor and Employment and the Department of Trade and Industry.

by Delon Porcalla (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Voting 224-0, the House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that aims to institutionalize the alternative learning system in basic education for out-of-school individuals.

by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Starting September, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will be offering a free contact tracing training program.

by Cathrine Gonzales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Online classes may be extended to about seven to eight hours, as the coming school year should end by May next year, the Department of Education said Monday.

by Joanna Rose Aglibot, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Aug 2020 SUBIC, ZAMBALES —- The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) on Monday began the mass testing for over 200 port workers following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a port area inside the Subic Bay Freeport.

by (Philstar.com), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — As it gears towards the opening of classes on October, the Department of Education on Monday announced a number of benefits to be made available to public school teachers in the coming months.

by Darryl John Esguerra, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — There are currently 1,245 clusters of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection nationwide, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Monday.

by Joanna Rose Aglibot, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Aug 2020 SUBIC, ZAMBALES —- Five power plant workers in Masinloc, Zambales have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and could have been exposed to a co-worker who also contracted the virus, authorities said.

By Ian Nicolas Cigaral(Philstar.com), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE 1 7:05 a.m., Aug. 18) — Money sent home by Filipinos overseas snapped a three-month downtrend in June, helping narrow the six-month contraction as countries around the world start reopening their economies from coronavirus pandemic-led lockdowns.

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Filipino senior citizens are forced to dip into their own savings to shoulder rising health costs that come with age, highlighting the insufficiency of public health resources that have come under intense scrutiny amid the pandemic and corruption allegations.

by Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), 16 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Slower declines in economic output can be expected in the second and third quarters of the year leading to a full-year contraction of eight percent, according to a former head of the National Economic and Development Authority.

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 16 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday issued guidelines for additional protocols in the workplace, which include designating an occupational safety and health (OSH) committee and officer and providing temporary isolation facilities for symptomatic employees.

by The Straits Times/Asia News Network, 16 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — By 1 pm, dietitian Violah Koh, 39, has already received her fifth package of the day: two plants, pots and some garden soil.

By JON VIKTOR D. CABUENAS,GMA News, 16 Aug 2020 Adult joblessness in the Philippines rose to a record-high of 45.5% in July with half of the unemployed saying they lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, a recent poll of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed.

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