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(October
6– October 12, 2008) KAKAMPI MO
ANG BATAS Atty. Batas
Mauricio Tarlac Bishop: Catholics must
show displeasure vs. HB 5043 SHOW DISPLEASURE VS.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILL, BISHOP URGES:
Congressmen, senators and others who are pushing House Bill 5043, otherwise
known as the Reproductive Health Bill, you’d better watch out: Tarlac Bishop Florentino Cinense is calling all the Catholic faithful nationwide
to reject the bill, and for all Catholics to show their collective
displeasure against the bill’s supporters come election time. In an impassioned
homily given during the October 5, 2008 Mass celebrating the feast of St.
Therese of the Child Jesus in Ramos, Tarlac and
broadcast live over Tarlac’s Radio Maria, Bishop Cinense said Catholics must now “wake up from their
apathy” and strongly assert their right to fight anomalies in the country,
which he said included House Bill 5043. Cinense said the Philippines is not suffering hardships and
difficulties because of the ever increasing number of Filipinos, but, he
said, because of the unabated and continuing graft and corruption in
Philippine society and the unequal distribution of wealth and resources
which, he added, favors only the rich and the powerful. *** WHY IS BFAD CHIEF
STILL NOT FIRED? I said before that
Director Leticia Gutierrez of the Bureau of Foods and Drugs (BFAD) should
already resign or be fired, and I am going to say the same thing again, after
Progressive Laboratories, an independent testing firm, found various food
products other than milk being sold in the market tainted with melamine
chemicals in dangerous levels. The continued stay
of Gutierrez as the chief of the government’s primary agency against
destructive foods and drugs has become untenable, with daily disclosures
coming out in the media that more and more contaminated food products have
sneaked into Filipino homes and are now threatening everybody’s lives, under
the very noses of BFAD officials and employees. This could only mean
that Gutierrez and her ilk at the BFAD have been totally and shamelessly
remiss, and have become fully incompetent and ineffective, in safeguarding the
health and wellbeing of our people, for one reason or another, so that there
is no more justification for her staying in office one second longer. *** SALVATION IN THE MIDST
OF SIN: One question that usually
confronts believers who live side by side with sinners and others who no
longer follow God’s commands, law and decrees, is this: will believers still
be saved when destruction is rained down upon a people who have been
committing sin? The answer, found in
Genesis 18:16 to 33 of the Holy Bible, is yes, believers will be spared when
God finally destroys a people steeped in transgressions. According to
Genesis, Abraham repeatedly asked God whether the sin city of God unhesitatingly
said yes to Abraham each time, promising that Truly, this is an
inspiring Biblical truth, because it shows God’s faithfulness to those who
chose to remain true to Him to the end, even if they remained alone while all
others have sinned. This assures
salvation to the faithful, who will continue following God even in the midst
of sin. *** WALANG SICK LEAVE O
VACATION LEAVE SA LABOR CODE: TANONG:
BATAS tama po b n hindi byaran ang sick leave &
vacation leave khit n hindi
ito pnggmit s mga empleyado? gnun po
kc ang gngwa s opisina ng mister ko (639163722892). SAGOT: Salamat po sa tanong
na ito. Sa ilalim po ng
Labor Code of the Ang tanging obligasyon ng kompanya ay ang pagbibigay ng tinatawag na service incentive
leave, na limang araw bawat taon.
Dahil dito, hindi pupuwedeng pilitin ang kompanya
na magbigay ng sick leave o vacation leave kung sa
umpisa pa lamang ng pagtatrabaho ng manggagawa ay hindi na ito
nagbibigay ng ganung benepisyo. Sa kabilang dako, kung dati ng nagbibigay
ng sick leave at vacation leave ang
kompanya, hindi nito pupuwedeng basta na lamang
ititigil ang pagbibigay nito ng hindi pumapayag
ang manggagawa. Kung basta na lamang
ititigil ng kompanya ang pagbibigay ng benepisyong ito ng walang pahintulot
ang manggagawa, maaaring masampahan ang mga may-ari
o opisyales ng kompanya ng kasong
kriminal, batay sa paglabag ng
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