FOOD delivery riders for the app Foodpanda scored a victory after the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) in Central Visayas ruled that they are employees of the platform. According to …
Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’
In dingy internet cafes, jampacked office spaces or at home, they annotate the masses of data that American companies need to train their artificial intelligence models. The workers differentiate pedestrians …
Chrisden Cabrera Ditiangkin, Hendrix Masamayor Molines, Harvey Mosquito Juanio, Joselito Castro Verde, and Brian Anthony Cubacub Nabong Vs. Lazada E-Services Philippines, Inc., Allan Ancheto, Richard Delantar and Jade Andrade
Here is the full decision of the Philippines Supreme Court finding that digital platfrom drivers are employees: https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/246892.pdf
Philippines: SC Rules in Favor of Dismissed Lazada Riders
When the status of the employment is in dispute, the employer bears the burden to prove that the person whose service it pays for is an independent contractor rather than …
NLRC orders foodpanda to pay 7 dismissed delivery riders in Davao
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – The Regional Arbitration Branch (RAB-XI) of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) in the Davao Region found foodpanda Philippines Incorporated (FP) guilty of terminating the employment …
Hong Kong judge rules in favor of abused Philippine domestic worker
A Hong Kong judge ruled Friday the police had “prematurely curtailed” their investigation of a Philippine domestic worker being exploited by her employer, a biting assessment of the city’s failure …
Nurses Who Faced Lawsuits for Quitting Are Fighting Back
A couple of years ago, Novie Dale Carmen paid $20,000 to quit her nursing job. She was less than halfway to fulfilling the three-year commitment she’d made to Health Carousel LLC, …
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It has the legal framework but what will it take to power genuine just transition in the Philippines?
In 2008, the Philippines passed the landmark Renewable Energy (RE) Act, which aimed to reduce the country’s carbon emissions and harness its local energy sources. The law was designed to attract …