Quezon City (22 March) — Employers and trade unions are in a position to bring down the number of HIV and AIDS cases.
CEBU, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines and its party-list arm challenged presidential candidates to take a stand and join the debate on the demand of workers for wage hikes.
THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) will soon release guidelines for companies on how to address the occurrence of Human immunodeficiency virus/Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/Aids) in the workplace.
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CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines/11 March 2010 by Mike Baños—The largest workers’ party in the country, Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), has joined the bandwagon calling on all Mindanaoans to vigorously oppose the privatization of the Agus-Pulangi Hydroelectric Complex.
The party-list group Trade Union Congress Party (TUCP) is strongly opposing the proposed sale of the six Agus-Pulangi hydro power plants in Mindanao to the private sector.
MANILA, Philippines – Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential candidate Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. said yesterday the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) and the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards (RTWPB) should be given a free hand to review petitions for an across-the-board daily wage increase.
A national labor organization on Monday filed a petition with the National Capital Region (NCR) Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board for a P75 wage increase across the board.
MANILA, Philippines – A labor group has scored the Department of Finance (DOF) for asking President Arroyo to veto a provision in the proposed new Migrant Workers Act that exempts overseas Filipino workers’ remittances from the documentary stamp tax (DST).
DAVAO CITY (22 February) -Thirty trade union leaders from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao completed recently the National Workshop on Productivity and Labor Management Cooperation (LMC), focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Collective Bargaining.
THE NUMBER of non-farm employees injured while on duty declined by a fifth in 2007, latest data from the Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES) showed.
Manila (12 February) — A high level delegation of six officials and experts of Japan International Labor Foundation (JILAF) headed by its President and former JTUC-RENGO (largest trade union organization in Japan) President, Mr. Tsuyoshi Takagi, will arrive in the Philippines on February 16 to observe and participate in Trade Union Congress of the Philippines’…
The number of Filipinos who sought to enter America’s nursing profession plunged by 26 percent in 2009, according to the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines.
MANILA, Philippines – Employment prospects appeared bleak for graduating college students and other young workers.
The Philippine Government Service Investment System (GSIS), a state-managed pension fund for government employees, has failed to reveal the extent of losses incurred by its Global Investment Program (GIP) in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, according to a top union official in the Philippines. Instead, Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Secretary-General…
Tagaytay City (27 January) — A 3-day project implementers’ monitoring and planning workshop on Reproductive Health (RH) and Family Planning was successfully conducted here recently.
Manila (26 January) — The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) vowed to continue its services on Reproductive Health (RH) and Family Planning to all its union members and non-union members at the workplace.
A lawmaker is seeking a raise in the termination pay of employees separated from employment because of sickness.
A lawmaker called Thursday for the passage of a proposed law that would put a cap on credit card interest rates and surcharges on both purchases and cash advances made by card holders.
MANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) drew flak on Monday for allegedly allowing the suspects in the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao province last Nov. 23 to live like kings while under detention at the police headquarters in General Santos City.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) created on Monday Task Force Ampatuan to secure Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. for Tuesday’s arraignment, which will be held in Camp Crame, Quezon City.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Monday there will be “no sacred cows” in the department’s probe into the alleged anomalous purchase of Influenza A(H1N1) testing machines.
The relatively warmer air temperature felt the past few days in Luzon is only temporary, meteorologists of the state-run Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Sunday.
SAYS TUCP MANILA, Philippines — The money sent home by overseas Filipino sailors rose by $108 million or 4.51 percent to a new record of $2.501 billion in the nine months to September this year, from $2.393 billion over the same period in 2008, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said.
MANILA, Philippines – The country faces as much as a $300-million drop in remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) due to the debt crisis in Dubai, the country’s largest labor group warned yesterday.
The number of Filipino nurses that indicated their desire to seek employment in America by taking that country’s nursing licensure examination plunged by 21.38 percent in the nine months to September this year, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) reported recently.
MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has urged the Commission on Higher Education to reveal the names of the 177 schools with substandard nursing education so that parents and nursing students may be guided accordingly.
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education was urged yesterday to identify the 177 substandard nursing schools nationwide.
MANILA, Philippines – The country’s largest labor group yesterday sought public disclosure of a list of more than 160,000 delinquent employers who failed to remit government-mandated monthly contributions to the Social Security System (SSS).
MANILA, Philippines – The government was urged yesterday to stop collecting taxes on remittances from overseas Filipino workers.
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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