Whilst condemnation of war on drugs and spate of extra judicial killings heightens day by day, the House of Representative on September 12, defunded the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and gave it a measly Php1,000 (US$20) for 2018. The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) sees it as both bizarre and telling how the Duterte administration values human... Continue Reading →
Compressed Work Week, Retrogressive and Disadvantageous to Workers
CTUHR asserts that any attempt or move to further legalize the pervasive practice of labour flexibilization on its different forms, or amend the Labor Code to ensure that business and capitalists are efficient and competitive are attacks to the workers rights and welfare. The Duterte administration has already abandoned its promise of ending the ENDO system, by passing the DO 174. Having a new law institutionalizing flexible working schemes such as the compressed work week is not only a total betrayal to the workers but also multiplying the exploitation and oppression that workers have long been suffering. Read CTUHR Position Paper on SB 1571Women WISE3
Women WISE3: Where’s the promised CHANGE?
Strong promises of genuine change by the new administration, especially the pledge to end contractualization is rapidly slipping from government priorities. Filipino workers continue suffer with the dire working conditions in the country – long working hours, low wages, unstable jobs, unsafe working conditions while businesses ...
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