DOLE announces pay rules for April 9 holiday
By Tina G. Santos
The Department of Labor and Employment on Friday issued the pay rules for April 9 (Araw ng Kagitingan or Day of Valor), a regular holiday nationwide.
The Department of Labor and Employment on Friday issued the pay rules for April 9 (Araw ng Kagitingan or Day of Valor), a regular holiday nationwide.
Amid the hoopla of the People Power I celebration, President Aquino on Monday signed a law compensating close to 10,000 victims of human rights violations during martial law as he exhorted Filipinos to “celebrate a race that will never again be oppressed.”
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala slammed the proposed distribution of the nearly P70-billion coconut levy fund to individual farmers, saying it would only generate floods of court cases against the government.
Last December, about 900 employees of the provincial government of Masbate had reason to have an abundant holiday when each of them received P41,000 as a Christmas bonus.
Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. shrugged off questions by reporters on Tuesday about the bill that seeks to compensate victims of abuses under his father’s martial law regime with funds from the P10 billion recovered from ill-gotten wealth the family had allegedly stashed away in banks in Switzerland.
So the nation will remember not to forget, a bill that recognizes for the first time that the Marcos dictatorship committed atrocities against Filipinos also mandates the teaching in schools of the abuses inflicted on its opponents and the heroism of those who fought the regime.
Almost four decades after he was arrested and tortured and his sister disappeared into a maze of Philippine police cells and military houses, playwright Bonifacio Ilagan is finally seeing his suffering officially recognized.
A quarter century after the ouster of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the government will officially hold accountable his martial law regime for human rights abuses and its victims compensated for their sufferings.
It could take more than 10,000 years before the corals damaged by a US Navy ship in the Tubbataha Reefs will regrow to its previous state, Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros said Thursday.
If a senator is free to do what he wishes with a P1.6-million bonus from the Senate’s savings, a clerk at the Department of Agriculture will be asked to refund any bonus from his agency’s savings.
About 500 people in Pantabangan town, many of them relatives and supporters of employees of the town government, staged a protest rally on Monday to press for payment of the salaries and other benefits of the government workers.
DAVAO CITY—At least 50 residents of Barangay (village)Fatima in Paquibato district here got P5,000 in cash each in compensation from the National Democratic Front (NDF) over injuries they suffered from the September 1 grenade attack, which communist rebels owned up to. A ranking military official in Southern Mindanao quickly criticized the NDF, adding that it [...]
It will be mostly sunny from now on for the employees of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) as they will be receiving at last their suspended and overdue benefits.
