Ruffa Gutierrez agrees to settle former househelps’ claims

Hannah Mallorca 04/05/2023

Ruffa Gutierrez has chosen to comply with the decision of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to settle the claims of her former house help who filed a labor complaint against her in July 2022. The DOLE ruling…

Zubiri: Want nurses to stay in PH? Then increase their salaries

Antonio Iñares 04/01/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Following President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s order for the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to address the mass exodus of Filipino nurses to explore employment opportunities abroad, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri has doubled…

Cebu City promises to pay resigned CCMC nurses

Morexette Marie Erram 07/26/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu City Government on Monday, July 26, vowed to pay the unpaid salaries of its job order nurses even if some of them may have already resigned. Acting Cebu City Mayor Michael…

85% of JO nurses finally get paid in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/25/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The job-order nurses hired by the Cebu City government amid the second wave of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases at the start of 2021 have finally received part of their five-month delayed salaries.…

Cebu City contact tracers assured: Salaries to be released by year’s end

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/27/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department has assured the public that the salaries of over 200 contact tracers hired by the city government since July 2020 will be released by the end of 2020.…

PB to tackle proposal to downgrade four Capitol departments in Tuesday’s session

Rosalie O. Abatayo 08/13/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu Provincial Board is set to tackle during its regular session on Tuesday, August 13, a plan to downgrade four Capitol departments into divisions and revert these under the Office of the…

Toledo City workers to hold protest rally for unpaid salaries

Rosalie O. Abatayo 09/13/2018

Toledo City government employees will be holding a rally in front of their City Hall today to protest the continued non-release of their salaries due to having “two mayors.” Risa Rafols, Toledo City Tourism Officer, said regular…

Bus operators told to give drivers regular salaries

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 07/15/2018

CEBU bus operators are being advised to give their drivers a fixed salary so as to discourage them from over speeding just to get more passengers. Capitol’s head of traffic management Jonathan Tumulak noted that some bus…

Solon’s bill seeks to penalize employers for delayed wages

Inquirer.net 10/15/2017

A bill seeking to penalize government and private employers who repeatedly fail to pay their employees salaries on time without justifiable reasons has been filed at the House of Representatives. In filing House Bill No. 6537, Rep.…

Ermita workers cry foul over unpaid salaries

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/16/2017

Three months into the year and employees of Barangay Ermita still have not gotten their salaries for 2017. According to Ermita Barangay Secretary Erwin Peñafort, he has already submitted three weeks ago the vouchers for the salaries…

Casual, job order workers unpaid at Cebu City Hall

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/17/2016

MERLYN Cabreros, a casual employee at the Cebu City Hall, expected to receive her salary last Tuesday. When she checked, however, her salary has not been credited to her account. As a result, she had to borrow…

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