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APR
29
2021

Palace should launch program of ‘regularizing’ thousands of gov’t ‘casuals’ on Labor Day

The national government – the country’s biggest employer – should celebrate Labor Day with a mass regularization of casual workers who have been in its employ for years, if not decades, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “It can begin with contractual workers in
NOV
19
2020

Jobless “Millennials, Miss” hardest hit by economic slump

Government has been urged to make its unemployment cash aid program “more granular”, focusing on women and youth workers who have been hardest hit by pandemic-triggered business closures. The call was made by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, who said that both government
AUG
17
2020

ANC’s Headstart with Karen Davila

Senator Ralph Recto discusses the problems hounding the PhilHealth. “It is unfortunate that PhilHealth is imploding in the midst of the pandemic,” he said. Given the limited budget, Recto said the government should beef up our health frontline by hiring more health workers,
AUG
16
2020

DZBB/GMA News TV interview with Senator Ralph Recto

Resources ng gobyerno dapat ibuhos sa gyera laban sa COVID-19 upang maayos na mabuksan ang ating ekonomiya Problema sa PhilHealth hindi sana lumala kung nagabayan ng Board o “Big Brothers” na binubuo ng Secretaries of DOH, DOF, DBM, DOLE, DSWD ang mga polisiyang pinatupad sa
JUL
15
2020

As number of distressed OFWs mounts, time to augment DFA assistance fund

Malacañang should augment the OFW assistance fund of the Department of Foreign Affairs, as the surge in Filipinos losing their jobs abroad has reduced the P1 billion fund to P300 million.  “That lifeline to our kababayans will be gone soon at the rate it is being