In light of the pandemic, it was issued this year that medical frontliners will receive a hazard pay to give back the sacrifices and risk they went through this year but the arrangements for this were not that simple. Looking back, One of the Senate leader called on the Duterte administration to address the question of unreleased hazard pay and …

President Rodrigo Duterte signed two administrative orders authorizing additional compensation to be given directly in touch with COVID-19 patients to frontline health staff and to public and private health employees. In view of this, AO No. 35 approved the awarding during the state of national emergency of active threat service pay to health employees working on the frontlines. Meanwhile, AO …

The sacrifices that physicians, nurses and other first responders in the Philippines are working well to care for people with Coronavirus have earn outpouring recognition and gratitude. But another group of employees who endanger their safety in carrying out their duties during the COVID-19 pandemic is not receiving nearly as much attention: the garbage collectors of the country. As frontlines …