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https://www.facebook.com/notes/luke-espiritu/demystifying-contractualization-why-manpower-agencies-are-useless/1703060239730866/ Demystifying Contractualization: Why Manpower Agencies are Useless? by LUKE ESPIRITU May 24, 2018 The popular narrative regarding contractualization is that it began with the so-called Herrera Law of 1989. Allegedly, the Herrera Law introduced amendments to the Labor Code, or Presidential Decree 442, in the form of Articles 106 to 109 on contractor and sub-contractor.[1] Article 106 in particular is seen as the culprit behind contractualization. Since then, the idea of employment being bilateral and protected by security of tenure provided by the Labor Code gave way to another arrangement, the trilateral, which involves three parties, the principal, the job contractor, and the worker. This narrative is problematic for the Herrera Law did not introduce Articles 106 to 109 of the Labor Code. True, the Herrera Law, or Republic Act 6715, amended ...

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Things I hate about Filipino culture by Jenny Linares 1. Tactless culture. Masabi ang gusto sabihin, di iniisip kung nakaka-offend, minsan nga sadya pang nananakit. "Tumaba ka." Ikaw din, tumaba!  2. Pakialamera culture. Lahat na lang pinakailaman kahit wala naman sila sa buhay nung tao. "Kelan ka mag-aasawa?" "Kayo po kelan mamamatay?" "San punta?" "Sa hell, sama ka?" 3. Tsismis culture. Lahat na ikinuwento. Lahat na tinanong. Hindi ba pwedeng magtago ang ibang tao ng para sa kanila? Siraan dito. Intriga doon. Imbento dito. Imbento doon. Palengkerang kultura.  4. Feeling Entitled. Feeling may karapatan sila sa espasyo, oras, desisyon, talambuhay, etc., etc., ng kapwa.  5. Pa-star culture . Kahit naghihirap, makapagpasikat lang sa kapitbahay, todo-bigay.  6. Lasenggo culture. Kahit walang makain, basta may lalaklakin. Dahilan ng pagiging dysfunctional ng maraming pamilyang Pilipino.  7. Adik culture. Hindi lang sa ...

Marcelino Maceda, who earned his doctorate in Fribourg University in Switzerland in 1955, became the first Filipino PhD in Anthropology. (Picture from the exhibit "100 Years of Filipino Anthropology" in Bulwagan ng Dangal, UP Diliman).

November 18, 2017 Press Statement One year after the treacherous burial of a former dictator and a plunderer at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB), iDEFEND (In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement) continues to rage against the whitewash, if not, outright reversal of the bloody record of Marcos’ Martial Law. The burial marks ground zero of Duterte’s design to amass further power, beyond that which is accorded to him by the 1987 Constitution. Burying him in a cemetery of heroes does not make a hero out of a dictator. His act to bury a dictator in the LNMB, made legal by the Supreme Court, contravenes the Filipino people’s judgement of the Marcoses and their legacy of violence, plunder and corruption three decades ago. President Duterte is resurrecting the dark days of the martial law by marking his first year with thousands of extrajudicial killings, allowing the entrenchment of new cronies and barrelling through with anti-people economic programs. Rather t...