DOLE-7 new director sets new directions

Victor Anthony V. Silva 04/04/2017

THE Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (DOLE-7) is set to implement new processes in order to streamline and speed up its delivery of services under the leadership of its new director. This was what…

Labor task force eyed to handle pending ‘endo’ cases in CV

Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/28/2017

Will the estimated 9,000 employees affected by the 291 “end of contract” or endo cases become regular employees or not? The affected employees of these pending endo cases at the Department of Labor in Central Visayas (DOLE-7)…

Store employee wounded by guard

Rene Alima 02/26/2017

A CONVENIENCE store employee remains in critical condition after he was shot by a security guard during an argument inside the store in Barangay Poblacion, Argao town in Cebu at 1 p.m. last Sunday. PO3 Benjamen Hirosaga…

Labor groups: Scrap DTI-7, Neda-7 reps’ voting power in wage board

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/16/2017

AFTER their proposal for a P150 minimum wage increase was brought down to the approved P13 wage hike for Central Visayas, the disappointed labor groups in Cebu said they would lobby in Congress for the scrapping of…

We are here to stay

Edralyn L. Benedicto 02/08/2017

Dear readers, Twelve years ago, on Sept. 19, 2004, Cebu Daily News made history by becoming the first community newspaper in Cebu to go compact. The CDN heralded its redesign as a “compact for high impact” with…

MAO BA?

Editorial 02/06/2017

MISS U HANGOVER An office employee called in sick for work last Tuesday, telling her superior that she was “suffering from chest pains.” The truth, however, was that she still hasn’t gotten over the Miss Universe results…

Resolving the SSS pension hike

Editorial 01/09/2017

A P1,000 increase in pension for retirees of the Social Security System (SSS) is supposed to be released this month, yet there has been no official word so far that President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law a…

200 contractual workers seek DOLE’s assistance

Izobelle T. Pulgo 12/27/2016

At least 200 contractual workers from three different companies in Cebu face a bleak Christmas season and an uncertain 2017 as they await the result of their negotiation and schedules of meetings mediated by the labor department…

Burglars take close to P300K cash from pawnshop on Christmas day

Nestle L. Semilla 12/26/2016

Close to P300 thousand pesos cash were taken by burglars from a pawnshop in Osmeña Boulevard, Cebu City. According to PO3 Carl del Mar of Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) Theft and Robbery Section (TRS), the burglars…

CAAP probes co-pilot’s death

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/19/2016

The reported death of a co-pilot of a Cebu-bound Cebu Pacific flight from Singapore last Saturday prompted an investigation from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) and an appeal from a co-pilot’s friend to the…

MAO BA?

Editorial 11/29/2016

SIESTA TIME There is an office in one local government unit in Cebu where the lights are turned off from noon to 1 p.m. That’s because this is the time when employees take a nap or have…

Hybrid trains to service call center employees

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/13/2016

A HYBRID electric road train to be rolled out by the Cebu City government and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) may soon service call center employees in the city. Joel Yu, the pointman of Cebu…

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