Senator Win Gatchalian, who is calling for fair access to financial services, claims that doing so would accelerate the country's digitalization of financial transactions.
"I support it because we have to diversify our ayuda program. The conventional track is to aid workers who have lost their jobs. This one helps workers from losing theirs. We have to invest more in payroll retention and job protection programs that help both employers and workers," Villanueva, chair of the Senate labor committee, said in a statement.
According to De Lima, providing employees with a 10-day pandemic leave not only protects employees and their families but also ensures workplace health and safety and prevents the virus from spreading further. Do you think a 10-day pandemic leave can ensure a healthy and safe workplace while also sustaining the economic needs?
Senator Win Gatchalian pressed a need to bridge inequalities and achieve effective learning for the country's K to 12 learners in meeting the problems of distance learning. What are your opinions on today's form of learning?
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go requested that the PRC's proctors and watchers for upcoming professional board exams be included in the Covid-19 vaccination program's A4 priority group.
"Kung hindi natin wawakasan itong sagot for sale at iba pang anyo ng pandaraya sa distance learning, lalong hindi matututo ang mga mag-aaral. At kapag nalusutan nila ito sa unang pagkakataon, uulit-ulitin na nila ang ganitong pandaraya. Dekalidad na edukasyon ang nakasalalay dito," said Gatchalian.
DE LIMA: "Sa panahon ng ating sama-samang pagninilay at paggunita sa sagradong okasyong ito, hinihikayat ang bawat isa na ipagdasal ang kaligtasan at paggaling ng maysakit, at ang katatagan ng loob ng mga pamilyang nawalan ng mahal sa buhay hindi lang dahil sa pandemya kundi maging ng nagpapatuloy pa ring karahasan at patayan sa ating bayan."