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DTI to legitimate contractors: police your ranks Maintains workers’ tenure protected under ‘win-win’
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez challenged the Philippine Association of Legitimate Service Contractors (PALSCON) to police its ranks to ensure the effective implementation of the so-called “win-win structure” involving legitimate service providers (SPs), companies and workers. Speaking at PALSCON’s 6th National Forum on 14 November, Sec. Lopez reiterated that the “win-win” structure that upholds workers’ security of tenure is not a departure from, but an improvement of what has already been provided by the law on legitimate contracting. The Labor Code and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Department Orders 10 (Series of 1997), 18-02 (Series of 2002) and 18-A (Series of 2011) guarantee legitimate contracting or subcontracting arrangements. Consistent with the unchanged position of President Rodrigo Duterte to put a stop on end-of-contract (endo) schemes, the trade chief maintained that as added value to the full and strict implementation of legitimate contracting, the win-win structure carries two specific provisions that safeguard workers’ tenure rights, specifically by making workers regular and permanent, as well as by affording them mandatory retirement benefits. The DTI-proposed structure also allows companies to either directly employ workers or source workers from legitimate SPs. Sec. Lopez said that the critical role of the association of legitimate SPs in effectively carrying out the win-win structure is to patrol its ranks to ensure that workers receive appropriate benefits. “What is critical now is the compliance of legitimate SPs in giving full benefits to the workers,” said Sec. Lopez, adding that the proposal received positive response from President Duterte. The PALSCON audience showed support to Sec. Lopez’s statement that legitimate contractors’ failure to comply... read moreSacred Heart Loon
Gov. Edgar Chatto graced the blessing and turnover of a 2-classroom building at Sacred Heart Academy in Loon. The building was donated by the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation, Lockton Philippines Insurance and Reinsurance Brokers, Inc, and Energy Development Corporation under DepEd Adopt a School Program. The school which was situated beside the Loon Church was totally damaged during the earthquake and had to be relocated and rebuilt at a new... read more
RENEWED TIES, RENEWABLE ENERGY
RENEWED TIES, RENEWABLE ENERGY – Gov. Edgar M. Chatto, hosts a special dinner for the German Ambassador to the Philippines, His Excellency, Gordon Kricke, together with the German community in Bohol. With the Ambassador are WeGen Chairman/Founder Michael Saalfeld, WeGen CEO, Pres. and Co-Founder Julito “Sarge” Sarmiento, WeGen COO Cecilia Dalupan, WeGen CFO Lorenzo Tan, WeGen Laudato Si Managing Director Jun Cruz, WeGen Bohol Managing Director MGen (ret.) Carlos Holganza, and NGC VP for SPUG Ed Veloso.WeGen, formerly known as Merica Energy, is a transformative new business that takes advantage of rapidly advancing distributed and renewable energy developments, battery storage and software technologies for a range of applications – for homes and small businesses, to large industrial and commercial properties, and even entire islands. The company aims to make more sustainable energy solutions in the Asia Pacific Region. With the governor are First Lady and Balilihan Mayor Pureza Veloso Chatto, 1st Dist Cong. Rene R. Relampagos, SEEM Cluster Head Liza M. Quirog, and Board Members Benjie Arcamo and Jade Acapulco...No Results Found
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PGMA wants Panglao Airport to start soon
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo started pulling the strings to move government agencies to start the construction works on the P4.7 billion (US$115 million) Panglao International Airport in Bohol and bring Bohol on a tougher toehold in the country’s super regions plan. The presidential action was to build on the momentum of the growing regional travel market in Asia, and thus possibly getting Visayas the share of economic development. In fact, for Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado, its completion would be Bohol’s biggest gift to the President as she celebrates her birthday in April of 2010. Earlier, the President issued the order at a Cabinet meeting in Malacanang when they country’s top development thinkers tackled programs and projects for rural development, among which was the approval of the Panglao Airport Development Project by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board. The President, who chairs the NEDA Board, said the “bid must be out by April this year and work start by July.” She also was reported as saying that the project would be funded by internal government funds as she ordered in July 2005. By the arrangement, the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) bankrolls 90% of the P4.7 billion project cost while the remaining 10% would be funded by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC). According to a feasibility study on the project, the construction of an airport in Panglao Island is economically viable. It showed that air passenger arrivals in Bohol have been “phenomenal,” brought about by Bohol’s tourism initiatives including preservation and development of world-class Panglao white-sandy beaches. Settled in a 195 hectare lot, Panglao Airport Development Project...PGMA’s port-to-port Hi-way now in GAA
TRUE to her promise, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo packed in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) some P372M to realize an ambitious highway through the mountains of Bohol and connects Tubigon to Jagna Ports. According to sources at the Capitol, this year’s GAA reflects an appropriation of P372M, a hundred million more than the President’s earlier commitment when she launched the Jagna Strong Republic Nautical Highway (SRNH) port two years ago. The project, which is critical segment of the integrated tourism circuits developed here supports the presidential dream of making the Visayas super-regions as a tourism hub for the country. The road accents the inter-island mobility and accessibility and completes the port to port access where tourists can easily take the ferries and land trips in between to their favorite destinations via the SRNH-RoRo. Many Boholanos have earlier said that the president was only making good time with the pronouncement, adding that the project would definitely need an amount the president may not be able to singularly grant. Doubters need to stand aside now, the GAA is already enough proof that concreting of the Tubigon to Jagna road could be just as close. The development has elated Governor Erico Aumentado and the provincial officials as they agreed that the president was really meaning what she said. The Capitol report, which was printed in local papers here cited the funds as the source for concreting specific sections of the junction of Tagbilaran East Road and Jagna-Sierra Bullones Road. Detailed in the GAA are the P93.37M Canjulao-Boctol-Jagna road section, the P93.2M Sierra Bullones section and the P93.03M Matin-ao- Magsaysay, Villa Garcia Sierra...Palafox starts Panglao Isle dev’t masterplan
GOVERNMENT commissioned builders arrived here last week to finish the Panglao Island Master Plan within 100 days. In an exclusive interview aired by a radio station here, Architect Felino Palafox, assured Boholanos that the Panglao and Dauis towns masterplan blends with the set tourism development in the island. Palafox, who heads Palafox and associates has been commissioned by the Provincial Government to prepare the island’s zoning and the especially with the Panglao Bohol International Airport now in the pipeline. He called the PBIA the best magnet for development. Palafox and Associates are credited to have transformed a desolate desert in the Middle East into one landmark of development and progress, which is now familiarly Dubai of the United Arab Emirates. While studying the PBIA and the general appearance of Panglao Island, Palafox readily suggested that Boholanos go into overdrive in planting trees. On the blatant disregard of beach occupants to follow the mandatory 20-meter easement zone, Palafox said the law should be enforced adding that other countries have even enforced the 200 meter salvage zone. A no nonsense and self confessed environmentalist, Palafox has said he would never bargain the environment for progress. Palafox has also been lately coming up in the news when he gave up $1M architectural fee as a sign of protest over the indiscriminate cutting of century-old trees at the Subic Free Port Zone....PDIC checking for fake deposit claims
Examiners of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) are suspicious of fake money claims on insured deposits of the closed Pilipino Rural Bank (PRBank) Tagbilaran Branch. The careful evaluation of deposit claims has delayed the releases to depositors. Until all records have been examined and verified by PDIC, not all claims can be processed. There is no definite date when the PDIC will be back to process the next batch of claims which covers deposits above P100,000, the PDIC personnel concluded. Click here for the full...Displaced OFWs get livelihood assistance from OWWA
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration – Region 7 (OWWA-7) has given financial assistance to 168 displaced Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) to help them start their own business. In a public consultative meeting, OWWA Administrator Carmelita Dizon with Felix C. Guanzon, Presidential Assistant for Central Visayas and deputy administrator Teresita Manzala handed over checques to the first batch of beneficiaries. OFWs who would like to avail of the program will submit their business proposals and will undergo business counseling and entrepreneurial training. (PIA-7/hfg) Click here for full...National News
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