
News by Country: Philippines
8 January 2021
· 90 Filipino healthcare workers in US succumb to COVID-19
(Inquirer, 8 January 2021)
· COVID-hit workers still can’t claim ECC benefits
(Inquirer, 8 January 2021)
· 15K bus workers lose jobs as gov't continues to limit
mass transport (CNN Philippines, 7 January 2021)
· Hiring Indonesian, Filipino and Indian maids on
Singapore: The difference in cost (Asia
One, 6 January 2021)
· Over 100,000 Chinese workers in PH received unauthorized
COVID-19 vaccines (CNN Philippines, 4 January
2021)
· Sacked garment workers to hold another strike (Philstar,
24 December 2020)
· Filipino community proud of its front-line workers, but
urge stronger protections (CTV News, 23 December
2020)
· Displaced, Stranded, Unprotected: ASEAN’s Migrant Workers
(The Diplomat, 23 December 2020)
· 370K overseas Filipinos sent home due to COVID-19 pandemic
(Inquirer, 18 December 2020)
· 3.8M workers, over 550K OFWs displaced by COVID-19 pandemic
(Inquirer, 17 December 2020)
· ILO: PH workers facing double whammy
(Inquirer, 17 December 2020)
· Philippines repatriates over 300,000 OFWs since onset of
COVID-19 outbreak (Arab News, 15 December 2020)
· Disproportionate Fine Against Migrant Worker for Violating
Quarantine Sparks Controversy (New
Bloom, 9 December 2020)
· Over 93% of P16 billion allocated to aid workers already
downloaded (Inquirer, 8 December 2020)
· Philippines suffers worst job losses in 15 years due to Covid-19
and lockdown (Straits
Times, 4 December 2020)
· Close to 800 jobs in Taiwan open to Filipino workers
(Manila Bulletin, 27 November 2020)
· Nearly one-third of all US nurses who have died of coronavirus
are Filipino - despite making up just 4% of workforce
(Mail Online, 24 November 2020)
· The Latest: Philippines targets 60 million for vaccination (Daily Independent, 23 November 2020)
· Lawmakers mull 35-hour work week for private sector
(HRD, 20 November 2020)
· IKEA PH to hire 500 workers
(Manila Bulletin, 19 November 2020)
· 74% of workers want to rethink pre-COVID-19 ways of working
(Inquirer, 16 November 2020)
· Student strikers in the Philippines demand government action on
COVID-19 and typhoon devastation
(WSWS, 16 November 2020)
· Gov’t now implementing P13-B assistance to workers displaced by
COVID-19 (Manila Bulletin, 12 November 2020)
· ADB Partners with BMJ on New COVID-19 Guidelines for Health Workers
(Market Screener, 11 November 2020)
· Healthcare workers, cops, soldiers, poor among priorities for
COVID-19 vaccination (Inquirer, 9 November 2020)
· PhilHealth pays additional P100M to Red Cross for COVID-19
testing (Inquirer, 5 November 2020)
· OFWs displaced by pandemic to get P10,000 in aid
(Inquirer, 5 November 2020)
· Some 50,000 Filipinos left Dubai since June amid COVID-19
pandemic (Gulf
News, 2 November 2020)
· Inland Filipino nurses risk all on coronavirus front lines (The
Press-Enterprise, 29 October 2020)
· Duterte respects Senate probe of influx of Chinese workers in PH
(Philippines News Agency, 29 October 2020)
· Migrant care workers expose exploitation ‘Behind Closed Doors’
during COVID-19 in new report (Voice Online, 28 October 2020)
· ADB Helps Boost Philippine Military’s COVID-19 Testing Capacity
(Modern Diplomacy, 26 October 2020)
·
Philippines
to Keep $26 Billion Outsourcing Engine Humming Despite Crisis (Bloomberg,
23 October 2020)
·
Philippines
to allow foreign investors to enter country as it eases Covid-19 travel curbs (Straits
Times, 23 October 2020)
·
Hanging
by a thread: Cebu garment workers deal with pandemic dismissals (The
Inquirer, 22 October 2020)
·
Asia
Today: Philippines allows foreign travel to resume (ABC News,
21 October 2020)
·
Philippine remittances dip 4.2 pct in August 2020 (Xinhua
Net, 15 October 2020)
·
Over 254K OFWs flown home amid COVID-19 pandemic
(Inquirer, 15 October 2020)
·
3.3 million pinoy workers displaced by pandemic
(Manila Bulletin, 15 October 2020)
·
IMF, World Bank marshall forces to push for aid for
poorest (Manila Bulletin, 15
October 2020)
·
Philippines: 4.8 mln workers in tourism industry hit
by pandemic (Daiji World, 14
October 2020)