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TUCP Partylist Representative Raymond Democrito Mendoza said the government should prioritize the workers in the vaccination program as these are the people who are in high-traffic settings and interact with many other people on a daily basis.
“Vaccinating those who come into contact with the most people should be the priority, to prevent further spread of the disease,” he said in a statement in Wednesday.
TUCP said non-medical frontliners cannot be given enough recognition for the work that they have done so tirelessly during the pandemic.
“At a time when Filipinos were in crisis because unemployment was widespread and many were faced with exorbitant medical bills related to their COVID-19 treatment plans, it was the employees of the Department of Labor and Employment, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, Pag-IBIG, Social Security System, and PhilHealth among countless others who continued processing loan requests, reim
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SINGAPORE: Low-wage workers will be among the priority issues raised in Parliament, pledged several candidates of the new cohort of Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs).
The Office of the Clerk of Parliament announced the names of the nine new NMPs on Thursday (Jan 14). All nine are first-time NMPs, including labour union representative Abdul Samad Abdul Wahab, former national swimmer Mark Chay and conservation scientist Professor Koh Lian Pin.
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