
Labor Day literally laboring for vendors
While many Filipinos mark Labor Day with rest or small celebrations, for vendors inside Bustillos Supermarket, the holiday remains just another day…
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While many Filipinos mark Labor Day with rest or small celebrations, for vendors inside Bustillos Supermarket, the holiday remains just another day…
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Calls for the government to act to lower prices — either by suspending or removing the fuel taxes — and to fire the officials who imposed those burdens on…
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Thousands of jobseekers gathered at the Robinsons Galleria on Friday for a mega job fair organized by the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to mark the 124th…
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Homegrown fast-food giant Jollibee Foods Corporation has been ranked the No. 1 chicken quick service restaurant (QSR) in Southeast Asia, based on 2025 value…
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Philippine companies are increasingly adopting data-driven hiring practices as they grapple with persistent challenges in workforce stability, including early…
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‘Labor Day is an opportunity for us to come together and open more opportunities for everyone.’
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House Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy pledged Friday to prioritize legislative measures aimed at raising the national minimum wage and ending precarious employment…
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Motorcycle taxi riders on Labor Day renewed calls for the passage of the long-delayed Motorcycle Taxi Bill, urging lawmakers to recognize riders as independent…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. vowed to uphold the dignity of Filipino workers as the country marked the 124th Labor Day, calling them the backbone of the…
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The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on Friday welcomed the latest security alert issued by the United States Embassy in…
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Various lawmakers called for bills on the abolishment of Value Added Tax (VAT) and increase in minimum wage to be passed in the House as they participated in…
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The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) on Friday reiterated calls for higher wages and increased education funding during Labor Day protests.
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ILOILO CITY — A labor coalition has formally petitioned the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board for a P250 daily wage increase across Western…
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Latest labor data show the unemployment rate slipping to 5.1 percent in February 2026 from 5.8 percent in January, while total employment has climbed to about…
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Labor Day shouldn’t be a thank-you note. It should be a reckoning. If dignity requires a plane ticket, then the problem isn’t the worker. It’s the country.
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For a practice declared illegal since 1974, endo, or the so-called 5-5-5 scheme, has shown remarkable staying power not in workplaces, but in speeches,…
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Labor Day in the Philippines has long been a stage for workers’ voices, but this 1 May 2026 is shaping up to be a platform for life-changing opportunities as…
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