Pay rules for April 9 out
By Tina G. Santos
The Department of Labor and Employment issued on Friday the pay rules for April 9 as the country marks Araw ng Kagitingan or Day of Valor, a regular holiday nationwide.
The Department of Labor and Employment issued on Friday the pay rules for April 9 as the country marks Araw ng Kagitingan or Day of Valor, a regular holiday nationwide.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz advised young Filipinos on Friday to take up courses that would land them high-paying jobs over the long term, saying a recent study by the Bureau of Local Employment showed that the most lucrative jobs over the last five years were in the fields of aviation, banking and finance, business process outsourcing, creative industries, cyber services, manufacturing, and mining.
Labor officials rescued three child laborers from a construction site in Negros Occidental recently. In a report to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, DOLE Region 6 Director Ponciano Ligutom Jr. said the minors, aged 16-17 years old, were found working at an excavation site along the highway at Brgy. Calumangan, Bago City.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz Thursday said she would reveal to the public the “true employment situation” of bus drivers and conductors after their employers challenged in the Supreme Court the new policy mandating that drivers and conductors be paid a fixed wage.
Soon, bus drivers and conductors in the country will receive higher salaries, more rest days and performance-based perks aimed at promoting public transport safety.
The Keppel Subic shipyard did not have a safety officer on the scene when a steel ramp collapsed crushing five workers to death last Friday, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said Tuesday.
More poor Filipino students will be able to go to school following an amendment to the law covering the government’s Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES), according to the Department of Labor and Employment. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said on Sunday the amended law slashed the combined family annual income requirement to under [...]
No more grand and costly mass oath-taking rites for new nurses beginning this year. Saying that they empathized with Filipino families having to cope with the hard times, especially the middle-income class to which the majority of nurses belong, the Board of Nursing of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced it was scrapping the usual [...]
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines is seeking a dialogue with its union leaders for a “smooth” and “orderly” implementation of a spin-off program recently upheld by Malacañang, even as its workers prepare to mount another protest action this Monday against the restructuring plan. The Lucio Tan-led airline on Thursday said it would invite leaders of the [...]
The Office of the President (OP) has upheld the legality of Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) plan to cut 2,600 jobs to reduce costs despite the company’s recent return to profitability. In a two-page decision signed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa, Malacañang upheld the legality of PAL’s planned closure of three noncore departments, and subcontracting these services [...]
The Philippines will seek clarification from Saudi Arabia about the latter’s announcement that it would stop granting work permits for Filipino domestic workers, Malacañang said Thursday. Philippine officials will also look for other markets for its workers in the event that the freeze, announced in Riyadh on Wednesday, is put into full effect, Presidential Spokesperson [...]
Despite promises of “labor reforms” from Saudi officials, the suspension in the deployment of Filipino domestic helpers to Saudi Arabia remains with Saudi and Philippine labor officials failing to get agreement on the minimum salary level for such workers. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz met with her Saudi counterpart, Adel M. Fakeih, on the sidelines of [...]
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Tuesday said that the transfer of P550 million in Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) funds to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) during the Arroyo administration was above board. Baldoz insisted the transfer was legal because the money did not come from the Owwa trust fund but from the “Medicare [...]
