On December 13, 2017, the supermajority in the 17th Congress and the Senate approved President Rodrigo Duterte’s extension of martial law in Mindanao for another year. The decision is far from the promised promotion of…
Global civil society network People Over Profit (POP) condemns the arbitrary last minute decision of the Argentinian government to bar a number of civil society and peoples’ organizations from next week’s 11th World Trade Organization ministerial…
Three members of the factfinding mission (FFM) team were shot by unnamed men at around Tuesday afternoon at Brgy. San Ramon, Bayawan, Negros Oriental. Elisa Badayos of Karapatan Central Visayas, wife of former labor leader and…
End iSlavery Now! HONG KONG—Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) reveals Apple’s continuous abuse of labor rights across its supply chain. Among the major violations the report highlighted are suppression of trade union rights,…
MANILA—Thousands of protesters gather on September 21 anti-tyranny protest in Luneta to commemorate the 1972 Martial Law declaration. An estimated 30,000-strong protesters led by the Movement Against Tyranny marked the 45th year of martial law declaration…
The compressed workweek scheme is a flexible work arrangement wherein the normal workweek is reduced to less than six (6) days with 48 hours still being the normal total work hours per week. This means…
The passage of House Bill 6152 (Compressed Workweek Bill) at the House of Representatives is a direct attack on wage and labor standards already set forth in the Labor Code, according to a labor non-governmental…
A labor nongovernment organization expresses dismay over President Rodrigo Duterte’s lack of concrete actions to effectively address legitimate demands of the workers one year after he took office. On the day of the his second…
A labor research group expresses dismay over Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III and the signing of DOLE Department Order 174, or the Rules Implementing Articles 106-109 of the Labor Code. Ecumenical Institute for Labor…
A labor non-government organization (NGO) expresses its dismay on President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic managers on the staggered pension increase for 2.2 million retired SSS members. According to the NGO, Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, Finance Secretary…
