Hold PEZA, government agencies responsible for NCCC mall fire
The recent NCCC mall fire that took the lives of 38 workers should be the final tragedy in the workplace and lawmakers must take a closer look at the Special Economic Zone Act of 1994…
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BIEN calls justice for 37 SSI employees
DAVAO CITY—The BPO Industry Employees Network calls justice for 37 BPO workers who died in the tragic NCCC mall fire. The tragedy happened on the morning of December 23. Most of the victims are employees of…
Martial law extension is attack on trade union and human rights
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…
Civil society slams Argentina’s repression of peoples’ voice at the WTO conference
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…
Members of factfinding mission in Negros shot; 2 dead, 1 in critical condition
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…
Tell Apple to end labor rights violations, now!
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,…
Thousands join National Day of Protest against Martial Law and Killings under Duterte regime
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…
Compressed workweek attacks workers’ wages
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…
Compressed workweek scheme is attack on wage and labor standards
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…
Labor NGO decries Duterte’s failed promise to address workers’ demands
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…