FACT CHECK: BFP ‘job hiring for high school grads’ FAKE
A Facebook page is circulating several graphics about the supposed recruitment of “high school graduates” by the Bureau of Fire Protection. These are fake.
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Pandemic Graduates… Job Ready Na Ba?
Mas nahihirapan daw maghanap ng trabaho ang tinatawag na pandemic graduates. Online classes nga ba ang dahilan? Alamin dito sa Episode 5, Season 2 ng What the F?! Podcast.
The benefits of hiring PWDs, as told by companies
Persons with disability make good assets in the workplace, contrary to a deeply-rooted stigma that they are liabilities.
DOH halts order affecting blind massage therapists
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 Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). The licensing order will be deferred for three years, or until December 2017. If it were enforced according
DOH order may cost thousands of blind people their jobs
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 journey because their jobs were on the line. But Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) struck, and they were told to go home. No exams meant no licenses.
Seize economic opportunities provided by law, PWDs told
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 and regulations of Executive Order 417 or the Economic Independence Program for PWDs, is key to providing sustainable livelihoods for PWDs, say advocates. “PWDs are
