Department of Education Support Civic Voices Memory Bank Project
Department of Education released a memorandum to Regional Directors and schools division superintendents (DepEd No. 8, s. 2010) early this month in support of PSLINK's activities under the Civic Voices project.
"DepEd officials and teachers are enjoined to extend assistance to PSLINK's officials and staff..." and "Participating teachers are authorized to attend PSLINK's activities on official time."
The main effect also captures other possible changes at the firm level. First, OECD firms may have redirected some of their exports to less corrupt countries. And second, non-OECD firms may have increased their exports to corrupt countries, possibly picking up former OECD business. These findings support previous work on the effects of criminalizing foreign bribery in the U.S., which showed an economically and statistically significant decline in U.S. business activity in corrupt countries following the adoption of the FCPA. 59
The second key empirical finding is that the relative decline in exports to high corruption countries is observed across product categories, with larger relative declines for homogenous goods (-13.1%) and smaller relative declines for differentiated ones (-3.3%). These findings are consistent with various explanations.
On 12 May 2008, the House of Representatives passed on third reading House Bill 3732, or the Freedom of Information Act. On 14 December 2009, the Senate completed its action on the measure with the passage on third reading of Senate Bill 3308. After close to 23 years since the ratification of the 1987 Constitution, Congress is finally close to addressing the lack of legislation that has allowed the routine violation by government agencies of the people's right to information.
We, representatives of over 100 organizations and coalitions comprising public-interest groups, environmental protection advocates, independent media groups, print and broadcast journalists, farmers organizations and support groups, women's organizations, private and public sector labor unions, migrant workers, businessmen, academic institutions, and student and youth organizations, await with anticipation the day when the Freedom of Information Act finally becomes law.
Addressing mental health problems of government employees need comprehensive solutions, not short-sighted ones
We in the Public Services Labor Independent Confederation (PSLINK), a national confederation of government employees representing more than 80,000 government employees nationwide from national government agencies, local government units, state universities and colleges, and government owned and controlled corporations find the recent study revealing that a third of our state workforce are suffering from mental health problems very alarming and distressing.
The survey initiated by the Department of Health only confirms the long-standing calls of government workers to address the persistent neglect of employment conditions in the public sector by the current administration. It only proves how the administration, which should have taken a lead role in promoting decent work being the biggest employer in the country with around 1.5 million workforce, has failed its employees and become a most horrible model of an employer.
We in the Public Services Labor Independent Confederation (PSLINK), a national confederation of government employees and their unions and associations from National government agencies, state universities and colleges, government owned and controlled corporations, and local government units, see the proposed Senate bills (S.B. Nos. 715, 1706, and 3063) as a step forward in recognizing the value of the service that casual or contractual employees in the public sector. It is high time that this issue be seriously discussed and addressed in light of the growing number of casual or contractual employees in government. All the proposed bills provide for the granting of civil service eligibility to casual or contractual employees—the difference lies in the length of service required.
Public Services Labor Independent Confederation (PSLINK) a commitment to a Strong, Accountable, Comprehensive, Responsive, Effective, and Democratic (SACRED) Public Services
