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Tag: Employment

  • Raphael Torralba
    Categories Arts & Culture PWD Files

    The benefits of hiring PWDs, as told by companies

    By Maria Feona Imperial  |  Sep 26, 2017 8:06 AM

    Persons with disability make good assets in the workplace, contrary to a deeply-rooted stigma that they are liabilities.

    Disability, Employment

  • Categories News Yahoo

    DOH halts order affecting blind massage therapists

    Feb 18, 2015 11:02 AM

    THE Department of Health (DOH) has suspended the implementation of a blanket licensing requirement for all massage therapists in the country while working out a system of accreditation with the […]

    Disability, Employment, PWDs, therapy

  • Categories Banner Yahoo

    DOH order may cost thousands of blind people their jobs

    Feb 09, 2015 9:53 AM

    By JAKE SORIANO IN December last year, blind massage therapists from Zamboanga City traveled all the way to Cagayan de Oro to undergo licensing exams. They took the nearly 500-km […]

    blind, Disability, Employment, PWDs, Therapists

  • Categories Top Stories Yahoo

    Seize economic opportunities provided by law, PWDs told

    Jan 26, 2015 7:13 AM

    Text and photos by JAKE SORIANO PERSONS with disabilities (PWDs) are now guaranteed the best market for their products and services: the government. The signing last year of the implementing rules […]

    Disability, Employment, PWDs

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