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Statement of the HPAAC. 🇵🇭❤️👨⚕️🔥🌈My heart bleeds for our healthcare workers , our frontliners ! READ : pic.twitter.com/nS3XNYzRyz — Tony Leachon MD (@DrTonyLeachon) September 3, 2021
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by Marc Jayson Cayabyab, Neil Jayson Servallos – The Philippine Star, 3 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Several offices at the Pasig city hall have been placed on lockdown after employees tested positive for COVID-19, Mayor Vico Sotto announced yesterday.
by Sheila Crisostomo – The Philippine Star, 3 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Out of the more than 48,000 companies inspected, around 4,700 firms reported they have employees who got infected with COVID-19 as of July, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
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by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez – The Freeman, 2 Sep 2021 Your employees are not your property. You cannot manipulate them nor exploit their lack of courage and leverage. Your workers are not your slaves. Slavery had been abolished before the arrival of the Americans at the turn of the last century. You cannot treat…
by Rey Gamboa – The Philippine Star, 2 Sep 2021 The business mood has now become so dire, with the economy dragging its feet through another period of tight quarantines. The scant optimism felt during the second quarter of the year as the government announced the end of the recession with double-digit growth figures has…
by John Unson – The Philippine Star, 2 Sep 2021 COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Thirteen women who were promised employment with high salary abroad were rescued in a raid on a house in Barangay Mother Bagua in this city on Tuesday.
by Estanislao C. Albano, Jr. casigayan@yahoo.com, The Philippine Star, 2 Sep 2021 True to its laughable pretense that there are no non-readers in high school despite strong evidence to the contrary, the Department of Education (DepEd) never refers to the need to identify and belatedly teach reading laggards to read in its preparations for the…
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By: Doris Dumlao-Abadilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 1 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — As office vacancy rates hit record highs amid recurring lockdowns due to spiraling COVID-19 cases, Metro Manila’s landlords — previously less accommodating to office tenants compared to shopping mall occupiers — have been forced to offer unprecedented rental concessions to make their corporate…
by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez (The Freeman), 1 Sep 2021 Well, this is my field of work, handling HR and labor cases in such top conglomerates and multinationals as San Miguel Corp., Pepsi-Cola, and Petron for no less than 25 years, and as Department of Labor and Employment and National Labor Relations Commission official for…
by Louise Maureen Simeon – The Philippine Star, 1 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Three in every five poor Filipinos said their income fell this year as the pandemic drags on and continues to impact the most vulnerable sector of society.
by Louise Maureen Simeon – The Philippine Star, 1 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Economic recovery for the Philippines will continue to be tough, with its return to pre-crisis levels seen only by late 2023, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said.
by Bella Perez-Rubio, 1 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Women and girls bear the brunt of pandemics and disasters, a situation that a bill filed this week at the Senate hopes to address.
By Jenina P. Ibañez, Reporter, 31 Aug 2021 RETAILERS are asking for expedited vaccine deliveries as the industry is running out of cash reserves after three major lockdowns since March 2020.
by Louise Maureen Simeon – The Philippine Star, 31 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The government plans to review existing policies and regulations surrounding the country’s housing industry to sustain gains and improve the sector.
by The Philippine Star, 31 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Social Security System (SSS) reminds all employers, registered and unregistered, to be compliant with their legal obligations to their employees, regardless of employment status, to avoid penalty and imprisonment under the provisions of Republic Act 11199 or the Social Security Act of 2018.
by Ranier Allan Ronda – The Philippine Star, 31 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Public school teachers yesterday bewailed the Department of Education (DepEd)’s conduct of a one-week virtual training for mentors before the opening of remote learning in public schools on Sept. 13.
BY CAI ORDINARIO, 30 Aug 2021 MAJORITY of young Filipinos who lost their jobs in 2020 were working in only seven out of 35 sectors, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
by Danessa Rivera – The Philippine Star, 30 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Southeast Asian region stands to reap $12.5 trillion in economic gains by 2070 if they pursue bold actions to achieve low-emission economies, according to the latest report of global professional services firm Deloitte.
by Louella Desiderio – The Philippine Star, 30 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The country’s contact center sector expects to sustain its revenue growth despite the strict lockdown imposed earlier this month to contain the pandemic, as the sector benefits from hybrid work and increased vaccine rollout.
by Lawrence Agcaoili – The Philippine Star, 30 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines remains a laggard in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in terms of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth despite the strong double-digit expansion in the second quarter of the year, according to the DBS Bank Ltd. of Singapore.
by Marc Jayson Cayabyab – The Philippine Star, 30 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — At least 34 senior citizens were transferred yesterday from the Hospicio de San Jose to the nearby Adamson University isolation facility to decongest the number of elderly and children confined in the shelter for COVID-19.
by Danessa Rivera – The Philippine Star, 30 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — International concessional financing and private sector investment are critical in the phase out of coal developments in Asian countries, including the Philippines, which still has a heavy pipeline of fossil fuel-based plants, according to an official of the World Bank Group. “Private…
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