Social Security

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Agriculture (DA) is reinstalling a subsidy scheme for rice seeds in an aim to sustain agricultural production amid renewed optimism arising from new private sector collaboration.

MANILA, Philippines – The Court of Appeals (CA) has ruled that government employees are not entitled to cost-of-living allowance (COLA) separate from their regular pay, otherwise, they are guilty of double compensation that is prohibited by the Constitution.

Dear PAO, I am scheduled to give birth by caesarian delivery this coming February 2011. How long will be my maternity leave? Is the father of my child entitled to paternity leave even if we are not married? Ella

Illegal logging, mining blamed for rise in slays MANILA, Philippines―Philippine forests have become unsafe for the people working to protect them.

MULTINATIONAL and local companies should give 20-percent discounts on single parents’ purchase of milk, diaper and medicine products, especially during Christmas season, a lawmaker said Tuesday. Rep. Carol Jayne Lopez of You Against Corruption and Poverty (Yacap) party-list noted that such move would rally the much needed support for her proposed House Bill 3391 which…

RETIREMENT HAS been romanticized as a person’s reward for long faithful service to an employer, whether public or private.

Kuwait has bared plans to increase the insurance benefit package for Filipino domestic helpers in the Middle East state, a Philippine Embassy report said yesterday.

Amid the alarming number of foreign household helpers dying or being abused in Kuwait, the Philippine Embassy there has urged agency owners to step up efforts to ensure the safety and welfare of overseas Filipino workers in that Middle East country.

MANILA, Philippines – The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has reversed a controversial rule that has prevented survivors of pensioners from receiving their benefits.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC Online 191/101210 Press advisory: Trade unions tell ASEM Labour Ministers to act on social protection and Green Jobs (Brussels, 10 December 2010): On Sunday 12 December, trade unions from Asia and Europe will meet with Labour Ministers and employers’ representatives on the eve of the 3rd ASEM Labour and…

Surigao City (December 9) — The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and the Workers Development Foundation Inc. (WDFI) with assistance from the International Trade Union Confederation-Asia Pacific (ITUC-AP) through the ITUC-AP Youth Committee will hold a workshop on “Advancing Decent Work through the Global Jobs Pact and the Social Protection Floor” on Dec.…

MANILA, Philippines (PNA) — Labor and Employment (DoLE) Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz on Tuesday announced workers not given their due holiday bonus can now report their employers through the DoLE’s national and regional telephone hotlines.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has partnered with various non-government organizations for the implementation of a supplemental feeding program that will benefit some 1.8 million children.

In a bid to strengthen and promote breastfeeding, Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri has filed a bill that will encourage and support breastfeeding initiatives in the communities and healthcare facilities as well as the workplace to make sure women breastfeed and continue to do so.

“We envision GSIS to become the most service-focused agency in government and to provide not just any kind of service, but responsive service.”

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MANILA, Philippines – The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) vowed to prioritize resolving the various problems of the teaching and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd).

MANILA, Philippines—An international expert on Monday said effective implementation of the conditional cash transfer program is critical to addressing extreme hunger and poverty suffered by 4 million Filipino families.

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The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) reminded employers in the private sector yesterday that all wage and salary workers are entitled to the 13th month pay as mandated by law.

MANILA, Philippines – A group of Social Security System (SSS) members filed yesterday a suit at the Quezon City Regional Trial Court seeking to compel the current SSS leadership to recover the huge bonuses allegedly received by former officials of the agency.

DESPERATE PALACE GETS CLINTON TO ENDORSE DOLEOUTS President Aquino and his allies in the Senate may be in for a big disappointment as opposition from senators swelled yesterday on the huge P21 billion funding of the doleout conditional cash transfer (CCT) program despite a desperate Palace bid of having visiting former US President Bill Clinton…

MANILA, Philippines – After sailing through the House of Representatives almost untouched, the country’s proposed budget of P1.645 trillion for 2011 faces possibly major changes when it reaches the next stage: the Senate.

I AM not altogether against the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program as a component of the government’s poverty alleviation agenda.

CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM WHO ARE the poor? Where are they? Ofelia walks every day with her children to the forest to gather hearts of banana plants that she can sell so there is some money to send her children to school. Nena has to make a choice daily between eating three times a day and…

The objections of some opposition congressmen to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)’s proposed P21-billion Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) budget are largely on the question of absorption capability rather than on policy. At the end of the three-year period in 2010, the P3 billion program that was started by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo sometime…

STATE-RUN Social Security SSS (SSS) said members affected by Typhoon Juan can avail of the pension fund’s salary and house repair loan programs. “We have a huge delinquency in short-term loans. But those affected by the recent typhoon can still avail of salary and house repair loans,” Emilio de Quiros Jr., SSS president, said in…

The Palace claimed yesterday that the Aquino administration had exorcised the controversial P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of so-called ghost-family recipients and that beneficiaries in the program are guaranteed to be among the poorest of the Filipino poor while expressing confidence yesterday Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman, who will implement the program, will…

Much has been written, for and against, the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the Arroyo government that President Aquino has decided to extend as a key component of his administration’s anti-poverty thrust, with an outlay of P21.2 billion in the 2011 national budget.

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