The Department of Labor and Employment orders the partial lifting of the supplemental work stoppage order issued by its National Capital Region office on Monday, stopping the construction of the Skyway extension project following Saturday's accident in Muntinlupa City.
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco emphasizes the need to review dam protocols to prevent a repeat of devastating floods that swamped Isabela and Cagayan provinces during the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses.
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed five laws increasing bed capacity of hospitals in the cities of Iloilo, Las Piñas, Tuguegarao and Quezon, and in Dapa, Surigao del Norte.
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading House Bill 7722, which expands the discriminating acts against women in the workplace.
Senator Risa Hontiveros is pushing for a national program that will build a 100-meter strip of coastal vegetation, such as planting a 'greenbelt of mangroves', to help provide safeguards to coastline communities vulnerable to the effects of typhoons.
Vice President Leni Robredo visits the municipality of Caramoan on Thursday, in line with her continued efforts to reach areas around Bicol that were hard-hit by the recent typhoons, Rolly and Ulysses.
Senator Win Gatchalian calls for more than a 100-percent increase in an item in the proposed P4.506-trillion national budget for 2021 that will fund the electric cooperatives' repair of damaged power lines and infrastructures.