Employees of Barangay Hipodromo were called to their barangay gym on Wednesday morning for an important gathering. The at least 70 employees who came were later on asked to submit their urine samples in compliance with…
NEARLY two months after he assumed the post, the assistant jail warden of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) may be investigated for allegedly threatening some of the jail employees and jail guards with a…
A Saint Theresa’s College-Cebu (STC) graduate ranked second in the July 2017 Social Workers Licensure Examination. Apple Mae Bacalo Opit from STC garnered the 2nd spot making her the only Cebuano to land in the top 10.…
ABOUT 630 Mandaue City Hall employees and officials will each receive a P10,000 cash bonus as part of the 48th City Charter Day of Mandaue City. The Mandaue City Council passed the ordinance for this purpose, appropriating…
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order (EO) increasing the amount of funeral benefits of private and government employees from P20,000 to P30,000. Duterte signed EO 33 on July 17, but the order was released to…
About 62 employees of Mandaue City Hall may lose their jobs even if results of their confirmatory test turn out negative for drug use. Mandaue City Administrator Danilo Almendras said 62 employees tested positive for illegal drug…
MANILA — Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III declared on Tuesday a temporary deployment ban of overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) in Qatar after its neighboring countries severed ties and closed their borders with the kingdom. “Effective today, the…
A 16-YEAR-OLD student was molested by two construction workers at a room inside a school in Mandaue City at 9 p.m. last Monday. Police later arrested one of the suspects identified as 20-year-old Gessard Agoncillo while the…
Nine employees from Cebu City Hall’s Department of Public Services (DPS) were found positive of illegal drug use. Another four barangay workers from Barangays Apas and Busay also tested positive of illegal drug use. Both surprise drug…
Three job order employees of Barangay Paknaan in Mandaue City were found positive of illegal drug use during a surprise drug test conducted at the barangay’s gym yesterday morning. Out of the 226 employees of the barangay,…
MANDAUE CITY Twenty-three government employees, mostly job order workers, have been found positive of illegal drug use in two separate surprise drug tests conducted in five Mandaue City government offices in the last couple of days. Yesterday,…
MANILA — A workers’ group warned of “an uprising among the working poor” if the government would ignore worsening poverty caused by joblessness, insufficient wages and short-term work arrangements. The Associated Labor Unions slammed the poverty and…