Mandaue City Hall job order workers face relief over drug tests

Nestle L. Semilla 07/05/2017

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…

Bello suspends OFW deployment to Qatar

Inquirer.net 06/06/2017

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…

Student molested by workers

Norman V. Mendoza 05/30/2017

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…

More barangay, city workers test positive for drug use

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/28/2017

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…

3 Mandaue barangay workers fail drug test

Norman V. Mendoza 05/23/2017

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,…

23 gov’t workers fail surprise drug tests

Norman V. Mendoza 05/09/2017

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,…

Group warns of workers’ ‘uprising’ over country’s worsening poverty

Inquirer.net 05/01/2017

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…

Mandaue Hall officials, workers test negative for drug use

Intern 04/24/2017

ABOUT 26 of 40 department heads and officials tested negative in a surprise drug test at the Mandaue City Hall grounds yesterday morning. City Administrator Danilo Almendras said City Hall employees and department heads were reminded last…

Repatriated OFWs get livelihood package from DOLE

Inquirer.net 04/18/2017

  Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Monday offered a package of services from the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) WELL program to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) repatriated under the Saudi amnesty program. WELL stands for…

Drug test for DEPW workers

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/11/2017

Only 160 out of the 203 employees of Cebu City Hall’s Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) were present during a surprise drug test conducted by the city yesterday. One employee reportedly fled from the DEPW…

Italy to allow 3 days of paid menstrual leave for female workers

Inquirer.net 04/03/2017

Women go through a ton of discomfort monthly due to their menstruation cycles. Now, it seems that the Italian government is looking to aid their ailing female workforce. The country’s lower house parliament, as per The Independent,…

DepEd among top gov’t agencies in Visayas with several workers facing Ombud complaints in 2016

Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/20/2017

  Aside from local government units (LGUs), the Department of Education (DepEd) is one of the top agencies in the Visayas area to have the most number of employees named as respondents before the Office of the…

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