Philippines’ workplaces a virus hotbed as economy rushes to reopen
May 3, 2021 4:05 PM PHT
Mandy made it clear to her employers: she could only work from home.
She lived with her husband and their two-year-old. Mandy had a heart condition, her daughter had bronchitis, while her husband worked as a delivery man for Grab. They shared a room for rent in Manila, making it impossible to isolate if at least one of them turned out positive for the novel coronavirus.
Mandy was a call center agent. She knew she worked well. From the lockdown in March 2020 up to the renewed lockdown in April 2021, she has managed to stay afloat in the industry where companies have been pulling out left and right, leaving thousands of agents jobless.
[OPINION] We need resilient workplace safety and health systems
Apr 28, 2021 10:00 AM PHT
Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa
COVID-19 has reinforced the need for resilient national Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) systems to be in place. To mark Safe Day 2021, Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, explains what they are and what needs to be done.
The COVID-19 pandemic, and its profound impacts on the world of work, underscore just how important Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is to all of us.
Workplaces can easily become contaminated with the novel coronavirus, exposing workers, their families, and communities to the risk of infection. In addition to the risk of infection, workers in all sectors face additional hazards that have emerged due to new work practices and procedures adopted to mitigate the spread of the virus. Teleworking, for example, has led to ergonomic and psyc
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