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by Bilyonaryo, 23 Jul 2020 Business owners, particularly small-scale businesses, can not afford to provide rapid testing for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among their employees every two weeks amid the challenging business environment due to the pandemic.

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by AFP Relaxnews, 23 Jul 2020 While office workers around the world went remote these past few months of lockdown, a recent study reveals that the ability to telework varies drastically by economic development, age and gender.

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By Marlen V. Ronquillo, The Manila Times, 22 Jul 2020 ORGANIZED labor during the Marcos regime was structured along the three major ideologies: right, center and left. On the right of the ideological spectrum, and the first labor center to be formed in the country, was the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines or TUCP.…

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by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), 21 Jul 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The number of workers who suffered loss of income and employment nationwide due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exceeded three million, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported.

by Darryl John Esguerra, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 21 Jul 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday cited the importance of “human interaction” to children’s overall development following the government’s decision to allow limited face-to-face classes in areas deemed “low-risk” to COVID-19 infection.

by Krixia Subingsubing, 21 Jul 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Eighteen big-ticket “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure projects, including the Metro Manila Subway, the upgrade of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) and the Mindanao Railway, have been flagged as “questionable” and “high-risk” by economists, who warned that the pandemic could “severely impair their long-term viability.”

by Gabriel Pabico Lalu, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 21 Jul 2020 MANILA, Philippines — At least one out of every five Filipinos have experienced involuntary hunger in the past three months, according to recent survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), the results of which were released Tuesday.

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by Darryl John Esguerra, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 20 Jul 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) is currently monitoring a total of 638 areas nationwide with clustering of COVID-19 cases.

by Calvin Cordova, Manila Bulletin, 19 Jul 2020 CEBU CITY—A 22-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy were killed after a hole that they digging caved in on them in Barangay Guinocot, Danao City, northern Cebu.

by Minerva Newman, Manila Bulletin, 19 Jul 2020 CEBU CITY – After evading arrest for more than five years, a man accused of raping two orphaned sisters was finally collared last Thursday, July 16, in Sitio Candagsao, Barangay Talima, Olango Island, Lapu-Lapu City.

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By: Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 19 Jul 2020 MANILA, Philippines — It took nearly two decades before nurses working in public hospitals and government agencies got the pay hike that a law had provided, and it came amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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by Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 18 Jul 2020 The Philippines’ war chest against the COVID-19 crisis inched up to $21.05 billion (about P1.04 trillion) as of mid-July, although still lower than most of its Southeast Asian neighbors when divided among the relatively bigger population.

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