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Duterte blames regulator for toll mess PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte on Wednesday night warned toll officials to improve their service amid public complaints against cashless toll transactions or step down. The President in a televised speech blamed the Toll Regulatory Board for glitches in radio frequency identification systems at toll gates that had caused traffic congestion at major expressways. He called the regulator incompetent for failing to do a trial run. “The system was not tested thoroughly, which translates into something like incompetence.” The government adopted a cashless toll payment system at about 200 toll gates after some workers got infected with the coronavirus.

DOLE: 550K OFWs displaced by pandemic

MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) Director Alice Visperas said as of December 17, some 550,000 OFWs lost their jobs abroad. “Of this figure, 370,000 of the displaced were repatriated to their home provinces, 126,000 displaced are still waiting for their repatriation, and 82,000 displaced and opted to stay on-site,” she said in a press briefing. The government started transporting OFWs en masse in May after Covid tests and quarantine. The OFW returnees were provided with accommodation, food, transportation, and COVID testing upon their arrival in the country. To help OFWs financially, DOLE has also been extending a one-time P10,000 or $200 cash aid under the Abot Kamay ang Pagtulong (AKAP) program to OFWs whose incomes were affected by the pandemic, both on-site and those stranded in the country.

OFW couple asks Riyadh to step in case filed vs PH labor attaché

Published December 13, 2020, 1:10 PM An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) couple who recently filed sexual harassment and bribery charges against Philippine Labor Attaché Nasser Mustafa before the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh has asked Saudi Arabian authorities to step in and conduct a probe concerning their case. In a letter to the Kingdom’s Administration of Expatriate Affairs and the Chief of Police of Riyadh, Herbert and Aireen Mayores said they were left with no other choice but to file a complaint against Mustafa, days after Mustafa lodged a libel case against the couple before the Saudi police. “May we ask from your honorable office for assistance to execute a thorough investigation we are very much willing to cooperate in the best way we can in the service of the Saudi government,” the husband-and-wife OFW asked the Saudi authorities in a letter dated Dec. 6, 2020.

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