+ Follow AMELIORATION Tag
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[Title] => SSS or SOS?
[Summary] => The Social Security System cannot simply say it will go bankrupt in a few short years had the bill granting a P2,000 per month across-the-board pension for retirees not been vetoed by Noynoy Aquino.
[DatePublished] => 2016-01-21 09:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1382205
[AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag
[SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
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[ArticleID] => 1480066
[Title] => City to lose P1.2M if amendment to tax ordinance is approved
[Summary] => The executive department has objected to the proposal to delist massage parlors under the Accelerated Amelioration Program because it would mean a loss of income for the Cebu City government.
[DatePublished] => 2015-07-22 10:00:00
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[SectionName] => Cebu News
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[Title] => Council okays hike in amelioration tax
[Summary] => CEBU - After postponing approval to iron out some kinks, the Cebu City Council finally approved yesterday the proposal of three councillors to raise to P10 the city’s amelioration tax.
[DatePublished] => 2008-12-11 00:00:00
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[SectionName] => Cebu News
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[Title] => Council defers approval of amelioration tax ordinance
[Summary] => The Cebu City Council yesterday deferred the approval of the proposed ordinance to increase the city’s amelioration tax after Councilor Edgardo Labella said more deliberation is needed to iron out the proposed legislation.
[DatePublished] => 2008-12-04 00:00:00
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[SectionName] => Cebu News
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[ArticleID] => 46731
[Title] => Council budget committee opposes abolition of Social Amelioration Tax
[Summary] => Saying that the amelioration tax compensates the effects its sources give to the community, the City Council’s committee on budget and finance had disagreed with the move to abolish the city’s Social Amelioration Tax.
[DatePublished] => 2008-02-25 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[SectionName] => Cebu News
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[ArticleID] => 296061
[Title] => SC junks COA ruling denying allowances to PPA employees
[Summary] => The Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Commission on Audit denying cost of living and amelioration allowances to employees of the Philippine Ports Authority hired after July 1, 1989.
The SC decision came after the PPA employees filed a petition for certiorari assailing COA's May 27, 2003 decision and October 16, 2003 resolution that denied their petitions for "lack of merit."
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-10 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
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[SectionName] => Cebu News
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[ArticleID] => 219110
[Title] => Loren pushes for gov’t employees’ amelioration pay
[Summary] => Senate Majority Leader Loren Legarda asked President Arroyo yesterday to restore the amelioration pay of lowly paid government employees to enable them to cope with high prices of basic commodities.
"With a stroke of pen, President Arroyo could undo the scrapping in 1999 of this incentive mechanism intended to boost the morale of the rank and file in government. The P7,500 or so that each government employee used to receive may not be much, but at least it showed them that the government cared," Legarda said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-30 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097133
[AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano
[SectionName] => Headlines
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[Title] => Port strike
[Summary] => averted
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Philippine
Ports Authority (PPA) averted a nationwide strike by port workers after they
approved the much-awaited social amelioration program for port workers.
Had the two agencies not settled the problem, port operations nationwide could
have been paralyzed by 98 percent last Friday, the Trade Union Congress of the
Philippines (TUCP) said yesterday.
Alex Aguilar, TUCP spokesman, said the National Union of Port Workers in the
Philippines (NUCP) threatened to go on nationwide strike last March 17
[DatePublished] => 2000-03-19 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1165072
[AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr.
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
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AMELIORATION
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[Title] => SSS or SOS?
[Summary] => The Social Security System cannot simply say it will go bankrupt in a few short years had the bill granting a P2,000 per month across-the-board pension for retirees not been vetoed by Noynoy Aquino.
[DatePublished] => 2016-01-21 09:00:00
[ColumnID] => 136063
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1382205
[AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag
[SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 1480066
[Title] => City to lose P1.2M if amendment to tax ordinance is approved
[Summary] => The executive department has objected to the proposal to delist massage parlors under the Accelerated Amelioration Program because it would mean a loss of income for the Cebu City government.
[DatePublished] => 2015-07-22 10:00:00
[ColumnID] => 0
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] =>
[AuthorName] =>
[SectionName] => Cebu News
[SectionUrl] => cebu-news
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[ArticleID] => 422607
[Title] => Council okays hike in amelioration tax
[Summary] => CEBU - After postponing approval to iron out some kinks, the Cebu City Council finally approved yesterday the proposal of three councillors to raise to P10 the city’s amelioration tax.
[DatePublished] => 2008-12-11 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] =>
[AuthorName] =>
[SectionName] => Cebu News
[SectionUrl] => cebu-news
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 420725
[Title] => Council defers approval of amelioration tax ordinance
[Summary] => The Cebu City Council yesterday deferred the approval of the proposed ordinance to increase the city’s amelioration tax after Councilor Edgardo Labella said more deliberation is needed to iron out the proposed legislation.
[DatePublished] => 2008-12-04 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] =>
[AuthorName] =>
[SectionName] => Cebu News
[SectionUrl] => cebu-news
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 46731
[Title] => Council budget committee opposes abolition of Social Amelioration Tax
[Summary] => Saying that the amelioration tax compensates the effects its sources give to the community, the City Council’s committee on budget and finance had disagreed with the move to abolish the city’s Social Amelioration Tax.
[DatePublished] => 2008-02-25 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] =>
[AuthorName] =>
[SectionName] => Cebu News
[SectionUrl] => cebu-news
[URL] =>
)
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[ArticleID] => 296061
[Title] => SC junks COA ruling denying allowances to PPA employees
[Summary] => The Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Commission on Audit denying cost of living and amelioration allowances to employees of the Philippine Ports Authority hired after July 1, 1989.
The SC decision came after the PPA employees filed a petition for certiorari assailing COA's May 27, 2003 decision and October 16, 2003 resolution that denied their petitions for "lack of merit."
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-10 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] =>
[AuthorName] =>
[SectionName] => Cebu News
[SectionUrl] => cebu-news
[URL] =>
)
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[ArticleID] => 219110
[Title] => Loren pushes for gov’t employees’ amelioration pay
[Summary] => Senate Majority Leader Loren Legarda asked President Arroyo yesterday to restore the amelioration pay of lowly paid government employees to enable them to cope with high prices of basic commodities.
"With a stroke of pen, President Arroyo could undo the scrapping in 1999 of this incentive mechanism intended to boost the morale of the rank and file in government. The P7,500 or so that each government employee used to receive may not be much, but at least it showed them that the government cared," Legarda said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-30 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097133
[AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] =>
)
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[ArticleID] => 87159
[Title] => Port strike
[Summary] => averted
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Philippine
Ports Authority (PPA) averted a nationwide strike by port workers after they
approved the much-awaited social amelioration program for port workers.
Had the two agencies not settled the problem, port operations nationwide could
have been paralyzed by 98 percent last Friday, the Trade Union Congress of the
Philippines (TUCP) said yesterday.
Alex Aguilar, TUCP spokesman, said the National Union of Port Workers in the
Philippines (NUCP) threatened to go on nationwide strike last March 17
[DatePublished] => 2000-03-19 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1165072
[AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr.
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] =>
)
)
)
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