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After the Herrera Law Weakened Workers’ Rights, Another Labor Code Revision in the Offing?
After the Herrera Law Weakened Workers’ Rights, Another Labor Code Revision in the Offing?
By MARYA SALAMAT
Previous revisions in the Labor Code have served to deprive workers of their hard-won rights. Now, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines are pushing for more.
The PGH Imbroglio: Battle for Directorship, Control of UP Board Traced to Questionable Deal
The PGH Imbroglio: Battle for Directorship, Control of UP Board Traced to Questionable Deal
By MARYA SALAMAT
The Philippine General Hospital -- the country’s hospital of last resort especially for indigent patients, a key training ground for students of the University of the Philippines, and the premier public hospital in the country -- is currently embroiled in a mess over who should be its rightful director. It's an imbroglio that has its roots to a multi-million peso lease contract.
Community Health Workers: Unsung Heroes of a Failed Health System
Community Health Workers: Unsung Heroes of a Failed Health System
By ARNOLD PADILLA
In a poor country where one out of two people dies without receiving any medical attention, where more than half of the population do not have access to basic health care, community-based health workers who provide needed services to fill this health-care gap should be heralded as heroes, not thrown to jail and tortured.
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How Hacienda Luisita Stock Scheme Led to Farmers’ Misery
How Hacienda Luisita Stock Scheme Led to Farmers’ Misery
By XANDRA BISENIO
Through the stock distribution option such as the one in Hacienda Luisita, the essence of land reform has been distorted to benefit landowners, denying the farmers of actual land redistribution.
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