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Senator Cynthia Villar urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to enhance welfare protection for overseas Filipino workers especially domestic workers bound for abroad citing the case of OFW Joramie Garcia Torres who was scalded with boiling oil and beaten up by her Malaysian employer. Villar […]
Senate President Koko Pimentel III cautioned that fraternity violence will persist if schools do not use “vise-like” regulatory policies and stricter monitoring of Greek letter societies in campuses nationwide. “It’s been more than twenty years since the Anti-Hazing Law was enacted in 1995, but the recent death of UST law student Horacio Castillo III […]
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), the lead government agency tasked to promote the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families, will be getting for the first time government allocation for its operating requirements, thanks to the new OWWA law. “Sa halos apat na dekada mula nang naitatag ang OWWA, ito ang […]
Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III said that the members of the Senate would exhaust all efforts to find a “reasonable middle ground” with their counterparts from the House of Representatives in order to restore funding for three government agencies that were given a budget of 1,000 pesos each: the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), […]
Senator Nancy Binay threw her support behind groups asserting that indigenous peoples’ (IPs) interests and rights be recognized and protected in the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL). “I support the call for the protection of the rights of lumads and for their inclusion in the discussions on the Bangsamoro peace process,” Binay said after […]
The House of Representatives’ leading advocate for the adoption of a national identification system took to the floor on Tuesday to call on her colleagues to pass House Bill 6221, an Act Establishing the Filipino Identification System, or FilSys, stressing that the measure would enable the government to better serve its growing population. In […]
Senator Grace Poe is proposing that police operatives wear body cameras in their operations amid public outrage over a spate of killings, including those of minors, in the administration’s war against illegal drugs. “Yung sinasabi ninyong mas importante ang baril kesa sa body cam–ito’y magpoprotekta lang din sa ating mga pulis. Kasi ngayon, sasabihin […]
Senator Sonny Angara has urged the public employment service offices (PESOs) in neighboring areas of Marawi City to be at the forefront in providing employment assistance to displaced workers due to the ongoing conflict. “Hanggat hindi pa pinahihintulutang makabalik ang mga residente ng Marawi, mananatili silang walang hanapbuhay at kita. Dapat ay aktibo ang […]
To stimulate economic development in the whole country, Senator Dick Gordon pointed to the need for a master plan that would maximize the potential of infrastructures in the country. While commending the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for allocating trillions of pesos for different infrastructure projects nationwide, Gordon stressed that infrastructure projects would […]
The Senate concurred with the ratification of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention No. 151 which seeks to protect the right of civil servants to organize, as well as procedures for determining conditions of employment in public service. With 22 affirmative votes and zero negative votes, the Senate approved on third reading Proposed Senate […]