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Uniform Policy for Rebooking, Refunding Airline Tickets During Travel Bans
A new bill filed in the House of Representatives proposes uniform rules for refunding and rebooking flight tickets across all airlines during natural disasters or pandemics. Filed by the Makabayan bloc, House Bill 8556 seeks to require all airlines to give passengers the option to avail of a refund, rebook or deposit to a travel fund in case flights booked in advance are canceled due to a travel ban, health emergency or a prolonged natural calamity.
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Published on 23/06/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Legal, Travel
Tags: COVID-19, air travel, airlines, airport, flights, passengers
Making a Killing: Pfizer’s Domination of the Market for COVID Jabs
Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant that dominates the market for COVID vaccines in the imperialist countries of North America, Europe and Japan, with bilateral agreements for more than six billion doses, is also set to become the main supplier to COVAX, the global vaccine programme to the world’s poorer countries.
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Published on 27/12/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Health, Politics
Tags: COVID-19, Pfizer, vaccine
Restaurants, Spas Can Fire Unvaxxed Staff, Defer Pay
Establishments that are allowed to offer dine-in or in-person services under the relaxed alert levels so long as their workers are vaccinated can withhold the salary of—or even fire—employees who are not vaccinated. The recent guidelines of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) exempted certain establishments from the “no vaccine, no work” and “no vaccine, no pay” policies.
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Published on 22/10/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Health, Legal
Tags: COVID-19, Workers, economy, establishments, vaccine
What Keeps PH Business Owners Up at Night?
Day 8 Business Academy Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), conducted a survey between June and August this year to determine the current state of mind of SME business owners and see what kind of help or assistance they need given the daunting challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Published on 08/10/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Health, Society
Tags: COVID-19, business
WTTC: PH Travel & Tourism Lost $37B from Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the Philippine’s Travel & Tourism sector last year wiped out $37 billion from the nation’s economy and caused two million to lose their jobs. This was the finding the World Travel & Tourism Council’s annual Economic Impact Report (EIR) today, June 2, revealed. The annual EIR from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) reveals the sector’s contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dropped 41.4%.
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Published on 02/06/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, News and Events, Recreation, Travel
Tags: COVID-19, Global, Tourism, international
Time to Address a Serious Learning Crisis
At a Senate hearing last year, the Department of Education (DepEd) reported that enrollment from kindergarten to senior high school for school year 2020-2021 was estimated at 23 million or 83 percent of the 27.7 million enrolled previously. When Senator Nancy Binay asked DepEd Undersecretary Nepomuceno Malaluan if this meant there would be millions more out-of-school youth, the answer was, “Yes, Madam Senator.”
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Published on 19/04/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Education, Health
Tags: COVID-19, children
Philippines Suspends Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine for People Under 60
Philippine health authorities suspended on Thursday the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine for people below 60 years of age to investigate reports of blood clots coming from overseas. The temporary suspension came after the European Medicines Agency recommended to include blood clots as a rare side effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Food and Drug Administration chief Rolando Enrique Domingo said in a statement, adding that there were no reports of such adverse side effects in the country.
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Published on 12/04/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health, Legal, Politics
Tags: COVID-19, vaccine
Flaws Aside, Online Learning Takes Toll on Students' Mental Health
KJ Catequista suffers panic attacks whenever she receives text messages on her mobile phone from teachers of what could well be simple reminders to parents about their children’s missed deadlines. Often, it takes hours for Catequista, a mother of three, to finally open the group chat app with other parents, nervously scrolling down the names of students and silently praying that those of her children are not listed among those lagging behind.
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Published on 12/04/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Education, Health, People
Tags: COVID-19, children