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“The new law has stiffer penalties to protect consumers. It provides that merchants who issue Gift Certificates (GCs) in violation of the law can be slapped up to a million pesos in fines, obligated to reimburse the total value of GCs to holders and ordered that their authority to issue GCs be suspended or […]
Senator Loren Legarda ensured that more funds have been allocated for the quick recovery and rehabilitation of war-torn Marawi City under the proposed 2018 National Budget. Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, said that aside from the budget under the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (NDRRM) Fund for Marawi’s rehabilitation, the […]
Government should start treating kitchen equipment as a basic education facility that can be used to feed kids in school and to teach them home economics courses, Senator Grace Poe stressed. Poe said there is a huge backlog in food preparation and storage equipment in public schools “which in turn hamper the latter’s mission […]
Senator Joel Villanueva filed a measure that mandates establishments to give 100 percent of its collected service charge and tips to their employees. Currently, Article 96 of the Labor Code provides that employees are entitled to only 85 percent of the service charge paid by customers in hotels, restaurants and similar establishments while 15 […]
Senator Risa Hontiveros is pushing for an additional P4 billion in the 2018 budget of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) social pension for indigent senior citizens to cover another six hundred thousand senior citizens in next year’s appropriation law. Hontiveros said that in the proposed 2018 National Government budget, the fund […]
To aid the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in its goal to be more efficient in the correct assessment and collection of customs duties and taxes thus enabling the bureau to meet its target, Senator Dick Gordon has initiated the approval for additional budget for the BOC’s procurement of additional X-ray machines. During one of […]
The House committee on public order and safety conducted deliberations on various measures mandating members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and other law enforcement agencies to wear body camera during their operations. Rep. Romeo Acop (2nd District, Antipolo City), committee chairman, said equipping law enforcers with body-worn cameras will ensure better evidence documentation […]
The House of Representatives approved on second reading House Bill 6396 which seeks to institute policies for the protection and welfare of caregivers in the practice of their profession. Rep. Geraldine Roman (1st District, Bataan), principal author of the proposed “Caregivers Welfare Act”, said professional and responsive care giving is very vital to medically […]
A content-based approach to the sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax would generate more revenue for the government instead of a volume-based scheme, Senator Win Gatchalian has said as he called on the government to develop technological and knowledge capacities to implement the scheme. Gatchalian revealed that the content-based system could generate P47 billion in government […]
Senator Joel Villanueva called for the retention of tax incentives being given to business process outsourcing (BPO) companies such as Regional Operating Headquarters (ROHQs). Republic Act No. 8756 defines ROHQ as “any foreign business entity formed, organized, and existing under any laws other than those of the Philippines whose purpose is to service its […]