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…
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…
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…
The Duterte administration had five months to end labor contractualization or the “endo scheme” but rampant hiring of temporary workers by companies via manpower agencies continues, according to a labor nongovernment organization. The Ecumenical Institute…
