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https://www.dole.gov.ph/covid-19-mitigating-measures/
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Date posted on April 16, 2020
7 Apr 2020 – COVID-19 May Increase Human Trafficking in Vulnerable Communities
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Date posted on April 16, 2020
“Right there, in our own backyards.” It’s a common phrase in anti-trafficking awareness campaigns meant to convey the hidden nature of the crime and the fact that anyone can be victimized by traffickers. Technically, it’s true. Anyone can become a victim of sex and labor trafficking. But it’s also more complicated than that. In reality,…
15 Apr 2020 – DOLE says, in the absence of company payroll, other documents could be used
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Date posted on April 16, 2020
3 Apr 2020 – BPO sector seen to help temper downturn
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
3 Apr 2020 – BPO sector seen to help temper downturn
There is no returning to normal after COVID-19. But there is a path forward.
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
Online sexual exploitation of children may rise during lockdown – NGOs
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
IEA sees record 2020 oil demand fall due to coronavirus
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
Higher risk of online sexual abuse and exploitation of children during quarantine
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
DOLE’s virus aid guidelines for OFWs selective, unfair
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
Free electricity for March and April for low-income households
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
By CNN Philippines Staff, 15 Apr 2020 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 15) — Power distribution utilities will no longer charge households whose monthly electricity use fall below 50 kilowatts per hour for the March and April billing periods, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases announced on Wednesday.
DTI clarifies rents are deferred, not waived during ECQ
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
By Kris Crismundo, 15 Apr 2020 MANILA – Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez has clarified to tenants of both residential and commercial spaces that rental fees and charges are deferred but not waived, during the enhanced community quarantine.
[ANALYSIS] Duterte’s coronavirus aid: Too little, too slow, too politicized
Published by rudy
Date posted on April 15, 2020
Fewer meetings, more toilet lids: What workplaces will look like after lockdowns
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
by Agence France-Presse, 15 Apr 2020 WASHINGTON — Around the world countries are hitting their coronavirus peaks and starting to grapple with questions about when and how to reopen their economies. But those people fortunate enough to have not lost their jobs should be prepared for a “new normal” when they finally go back to…
PIDS study clearly defines who are real middle-class citizens in PH
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
by Christia Marie Ramos, 15 Apr 2020 MANILA, Philippines — More than a month after the entire Luzon was placed under lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), President Rodrigo Duterte approved a P50-billion wage subsidy for middle-income workers.
Allow sugar mills, plantations to operate, Bukidnon gov told
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
by Ian Biong, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 15 Apr 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) appealed to Bukidnon Governor Jose Maria Zubiri Jr. to lift his orders shutting down sugar mills and plantations in the province because “such restrictive policy would only result in artificial shortage and thus price spikes.”
P50-B pay subsidy approved for middle-income workers
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
by Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 15 Apr 2020 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte approved a P50.8-billion wage subsidy program for workers at micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) on Monday after he expressed reservations about a Senate proposal to include more than 5 million families in the government’s social amelioration program.
Build, Build, Build rail projects get IATF greenlight to proceed despite lockdown: Tugade
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
by ABS-CBN News, 15 Apr 2020 The MRT-7 Quezon Memorial Circle Station under construction. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File MANILA – Construction will resume for the government’s flagship railway projects despite lockdowns in the country to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said on Wednesday.
14 Apr 2020 – DOLE belies it is underreporting the number of workers affected by the community quarantine to contain COVID-19.
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
8 Apr 2020 – OFWs displaced by COVID-19 to get P10k from DOLE
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
1 Apr 2020 – DOLE bent on providing assistance to as many workers in the formal economy as we give to informal sector workers.
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
25 Mar 2020 – Local, overseas workers affected by COVID-19 assured of gov’t assistance
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Date posted on April 15, 2020
Crisis can spark transformation and renewal
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Date posted on April 14, 2020
7 Predictions for a post-coronavirus world
Published by rudy
Date posted on April 14, 2020
Very pleased to see these health and hygiene guidelines for informal food vendors and spaza shops out in the world. Many informal workers have been classified as essential workers and need health guidelines adapted to their workplaces and circumstances.
Published by NTUCPHL
Date posted on April 14, 2020
Very pleased to see these health and hygiene guidelines for informal food vendors and spaza shops out in the world. Many informal workers have been classified as essential workers and need health guidelines adapted to their workplaces and circumstances. https://t.co/Mc7YqlDE9N — Laura Alfers (@Laura_WIEGO) April 14, 2020
Building resistance: a rights-based, holistic approach against Covid-19
Published by rudy
Date posted on April 14, 2020
AI is helping us combat the economic problem of human trafficking
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Date posted on April 14, 2020
The coming mental health crisis as remote working surges
Published by rudy
Date posted on April 13, 2020
10 Apr 2020 – Two more frontliners die from COVID-19
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Date posted on April 11, 2020
Mandaluyong hospital’s chief nurse passes away due to COVID-19 via Inquirer Mobile: http://inqm.news/axgn Ospital ng Paranaque’s Dr. Ephraim Neal Orteza succumbs to COVID-19 via Inquirer Mobile: http://inqm.news/axgs
The new inequalities and people-to-people social protection
Published by rudy
Date posted on April 3, 2020
School, interrupted: 4 options for distance education to continue teaching during COVID-19
Published by rudy
Date posted on April 1, 2020