Household service workers in Cebu City and in other parts of Central Visayas can now expect a P1,000 increase of their monthly minimum rate. Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (DOLE-7) regional director Exequiel Sarcauga,…
The Cebu South Bus Terminal (CSBT) management will hire job order employees to help address the recurring issue of passengers being declined to board buses for long-distance trips during peak travel days despite the passengers waiting in…
Cultural Workers from the 1980s and years after that held a reunion yesterday at the Handuraw Gorordo Branch: the Banaag Network, Dungog Network, PETA-CITASA in the Visayas, Bitaw, USC-TG, Prayer, STC Bantawan, DKR (Dulaang Katilingban sa Redemptorist),…
After much deliberation, President Rodrigo Duterte signed the P1,000 increase for Social Security System (SSS) pensioners last Tuesday, but it came with a corresponding 1.5-percent contribution hike from the active members who may or may not reap…
If a bus strike similar to what happened in Manila occurred in Metro Cebu, imagine the public uproar and even violence that may break out between drivers, management and even passengers. Last Dec. 29, over 10,000 passengers…
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…
THE Mandaue City Council has approved yesterday three ordinances that seek to increase the salaries and honoraria of government workers in the city. During its regular session last December 14, the City Council has approved City Ordinances…
Employers across the country have heeded President Rodrigo Duterte’s call to stop contractualization. In his keynote speech at the Labor Summit on Friday in Cebu City, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said that as of November 11,…
The deaths of three workers due to accidents in the northern Cebu town of Liloan and at a mall in Cebu City are just the latest in a long list of work-related deaths in Cebu that, while…
Labor officials in Cebu eye possible safety violations in the construction of a wall of a warehouse in Lilo-an town that collapsed Friday and, as of yesterday, has claimed the life of two of the nine injured…
THE regional Department of Labor and Employment conducted an orientation on “endo” or end of contract orientation to service providers Monday morning. “We are telling them what is labor contracting which is prohibited.Being providers they should refrain…
Customer service associate Darlene Hermano said she joined the millions of Filipinos who welcomed President Rodrigo Duterte’s announcement of plans to lower taxes. “Apart from the benefit of having a good pay, Filipinos will have the chance…
