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LABOR group Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) hailed on Tuesday Makati City for giving out early year-end bonuses to government workers. Mayor Abigail Binay ordered the release of year-end bonuses amounting to P569.47 million for Makati City government workers. (Related story: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/11/20/makati-city-employees-to-receive-bonuses-early/) “We thank the…

Critics of the Maharlika Investment Fund slammed yesterday what they described as the bill’s hasty approval, raising concerns over conflicting provisions and potential legal and constitutional issues.

Non-regular government workers will recieve a Christmas gift of up to P5,000 from President President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. this holiday season, but only if theyve served for at least four months of "actual satisfactory performance" as of December 15, 2022.

"It is only fitting that we look again at whether our government employees are still receiving enough, especially since the price of basic goods continues to rise. Next year, the last tranche of their salary increase. Thats why we should visit and revise it again," Revilla said in Filipino. 

The Department of Budget and Management is closing its doors to increasing the minimum wage of government workers to P33,000 as it reasons that a salary hike is scheduled for next year anyway under the Salary Standardization Law 5.

"This response is not enough. The present state of salaries and benefits of government workers requires more urgent and concrete response from the Bongbong Marcos administration, said COURAGE Secretary General Manny Baclagon.

“If BBM does not believe government data that the inflation rate in the country has reached 6.1 percent, we, the poor, will express the true suffering that we are experiencing due to high prices of essential goods.” By JOSH AVENGOZA Bulatlat.com MANILA — Urban poor groups are concerned that their situation would worsen if  their…

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"Red-tagging is worse during elections as it aims to hinder the progressives from campaigning, such as the case of Robredo and her supporters," youth leader Justine Mesias said.

Dennis Denora, a Sun.Star reporter and publisher of the Trends and Times community paper, has been shot dead by unidentified killers, according to the Davao chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. Denora was killed near the wet market of Panabo City in Davao Del Norte on Thursday afternoon, NUJP Davao says. The Davao del Norte Press & Radio-TV Club says in a statement that is is angered and saddened by news of the killing. "His death awakens the anger an...