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Feb 8, 20091

Protect women — CHR

by Joel dela Torre
from People’s Journal

MARKING the United Nations Day for Women and International Peace today, the Commission on Human Rights called on government to improve protection and programs for the rights… Read the rest

Jul 6, 20080

Inspectors find more violations at sweatshop

Martin P. Marfil
Philippine Daily Inquirer

The team of inspectors sent Thursday by the Department of Labor and Employment to the Anvil Ensembles factory in the eastern town of Taytay in Rizal province said… Read the rest

Jul 30, 20030

Anvil garments and the high road to job growth

Rene E. Ofreneo
Manila Times

The nation was shocked to read the investigative report on Anvil Ensemble, a Taytay, Rizal-based garments subcontractor, which required its workers to work continuously –day and night–for 48 to 72 hours just to be… Read the rest

Jul 25, 20030

Surprise inspections won’t banish sweatshops

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Your expose on Anvil Garments has caused the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to raise the red light against sweatshops (July 11, 2003). Unfortunately, surprise visits on business enterprises will not be enough. Unless and until the… Read the rest

Jul 24, 20030

Trials of garments workers

Rina Jimenez-David
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Mahirap matulog ang gutom (The hungry have a hard time sleeping),” says Joel Buela, union president of A. Bylsons Co. Inc., a garments firm based in Las Piñas City in Metro Manila, which unceremoniously… Read the rest

Jul 19, 20030

Taytay sweatshop starts paying back wages

Luige del Puerto
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Garments factory Anvil Ensembles has started paying its workers a settlement amount in back wages and unpaid benefits.

This has satisfied “for now” the Department of Labor and Employment and the Garments and… Read the rest

Jul 17, 20030

Accreditation ng Anvil binawi ng GTEB

Abante

Binawi ng Garments andTextile Export Board (GTEB), isang ahensiya ng Department of Trade and Industry, ang certificate of compliance ng Anvil Ensembles, sa ilalim ng re-accreditation program ng ahensiya.

Sinabi ni Executive Director Serafin N. Juliano na pansamantala ring… Read the rest

Jul 15, 20031

Accreditation ng ANVIL ni-revoke ng GTEB

RP Daily Exposé

Ni-revoke ng Garments and Textile Export Board, isang ahensiyang Deprtment of Trade and Industry, ang certificate of compliance ng Anvil Ensembles, sa ilalim ng re-accreditation program ng ahensiya.

Sinabi ni Executive Director Serafin N. Juliano na pansamantala… Read the rest

Jul 12, 20030

Sweatshops keeping workers awake with drugs face rap

Juliet Javellana and Gil Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Considered drug pushers

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday warned employers who use drugs to keep workers awake that the government would treat them as severely as possible.

The President said… Read the rest

Jul 12, 20030

Sweatshops

Manila Times

The government has acknowledged that 18 sweatshops are operating in violation of labor laws, although an official of the Garments and Textile Export Board was quick to say that the firms are not sweatshops but merely “socially noncompliant”… Read the rest

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