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For the month of January 2024, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported a decrease in the number of unemployed Filipinos. According to the PSA, there were 2.15 million unemployed Filipinos, down from the 2.38 million recorded over the same period in 2023. This is good news and a reflection of…

The rapidly changing landscape of work calls for proactive measures to ensure that individuals are equipped with the necessary skills and opportunities to thrive in the jobs of the future. The Marcos administration has taken a commendable step forward by proposing three bills aimed at preparing Filipino workers for the…

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered on May 1, 2024, Labor Day, the wage policy-making agencies to conduct a review on salary rates across the country to cushion the effects of inflation.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday called on the Congress to pass three new bills that aims to help boost government efforts to generate “quality and green jobs” and help attract more investments from abroad. Among the measures Marcos wants to be prioritized are the Enterprise-based Education and Training Program…

THE recent passage of four laws strengthening the charter and expanding the course offerings in four state universities will usher in a new era of quality

Philippine Canadian Inquirer House almost done with approval of priority administration bills News

AS the House of Representatives resumes its sessions on Monday, Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez announced that the chamber is on the verge of concluding the approval of four bills outlined by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. “We are almost done with the priority bills agreed upon by Congress…

Looking back at 2023, we could say that the Senate and Congress as a whole had a very productive year in terms of fulfilling its mandate of crafting meaningful laws for the benefit of our people and the country. Congress had a strong working relationship with the executive branch. We…

■ Ofelia C. Empian President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. has signed, on Dec. 20, the law establishing the college of medicine at the Benguet State University. Republic Act 11970 was passed together with three other laws that would establish three other College of Medicine at Southern Luzon State University in Lucban, Quezon (RA 11971); University of

While a number of laws, mostly economic in nature, have been passed since Marcos came to power, most of his legislative agenda remains pending in Congress