The implementation of the historic Wage Order No. NCR-27 will mean millions of workers in Metro Manila will get an official pay raise. The ₱85 increase in daily wages is implemented in two stages: First, a ₱60 increase in daily wages, which will take effect on July 25, 2026, and then a second ₱25 increase in daily wages, which will …

Philippines – A House board has restored its require the public authority’s pandemic team to concede the “no jab, no work” strategy, which requires COVID-19 immunization for on location laborers. The board of trustees on work led by 1-Pacman party-list Rep. Eric Pineda repeated its proposal to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to …

Philippines – The Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello recently said that specific foundations are permitted to require their laborers to get immunized, in view of a goal gave by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF), regardless of the shortfall of an empowering law. The legitimate premise of cafés, spas and other comparable foundations to require …

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has given confirmation of sufficient inventory of products during the improved local area isolate (ECQ) to be executed in the National Capital Region (NCR) beginning Aug. 6. In view of this, During the National Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Week Day 1 occasion yesterday, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said there is no requirement …

Surprisingly, Lawmakers from both chambers of Congress recently to urged the Department of Labor and Employment to look into reported incidents of labor abuse experienced by delivery riders of Foodpanda. First reported by Davao Today, the food delivery app suspended some of its drivers for ten years for planning and joining a protest over significantly reduced pay. Under the country’s …

Going back to earlier months, because of the local coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, employers are permitted to indefinitely delay the payment of holiday pay tomorrow. In view of this, Employers can postpone holiday wages until the current emergency situation has been reduced and the establishment’s regular operations are in place. Recently, The Department of Labor and Employment is ordering …

METRO MANILA – Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Wednesday, that around 700,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) may lose their job due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. Labor Assistant Secretary Dominique Rubia-Tutay said in a briefing with the economic team, the immediate and long term effect of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold and becoming …

METRO MANILA – The number of unemployed Filipinos of drops nationwide last July after lockdown eases and the economy slowly reopens amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to the data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), The jobless rate in July was recorded at 10%, and major improvement from the 17.7% recorded in the longest and most strictest quarantine lockdown …

According to the Philippine Trade Union Congress (TUCP), employees are resentful about the lack of guidance on business lockdowns and compensated quarantine periods in the spread of coronavirus disease COVID-19. Wide-spread confusion is emerging among the regular paying workers across industries over the lack of company guidance and inadequate policies in the event that government introduces mandatory workplace lockdowns and …

Since February, more than 300 staff from 19 tourism-related establishments have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus outbreak that has curtailed air travel, particularly from China, one of the country’s biggest tourism markets, the Labor and Employment Department said on Tuesday. Around the same time, according to assistant labor secretary Dominique Rubia-Tutay, 47 businesses with 4,416 employees have adopted …