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Lung Center workers demand their overdue benefits in lunchtime rally
Lung Center workers demand their overdue benefits in lunchtime rally
ABS-CBN News
Published Mar 21, 2022 04:04 PM PHT

MANILA — Healthcare workers at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) in Quezon City staged a lunchtime protest on Monday to decry what they say is the continued non-payment of several benefits.
MANILA — Healthcare workers at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) in Quezon City staged a lunchtime protest on Monday to decry what they say is the continued non-payment of several benefits.
According to the LCP’s employees’ association, they have yet to receive their Active Hazard Duty Pay from March to June 2021 under the Bayanihan 2 law.
According to the LCP’s employees’ association, they have yet to receive their Active Hazard Duty Pay from March to June 2021 under the Bayanihan 2 law.
The LCP is one of the Philippines’ COVID-19 referral hospitals.
The LCP is one of the Philippines’ COVID-19 referral hospitals.
Health workers hired under the emergency hiring program of the Department of Health (DOH) have also not received the AHDP, the association said, along with such other benefits as the Special Risk Allowance (SRA), and the meal, accommodation and transportation (MAT) allowance.
Health workers hired under the emergency hiring program of the Department of Health (DOH) have also not received the AHDP, the association said, along with such other benefits as the Special Risk Allowance (SRA), and the meal, accommodation and transportation (MAT) allowance.
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Their salary regularization adjustments were not released as well, the group said.
Their salary regularization adjustments were not released as well, the group said.
The healthcare workers have also yet to receive their promised clothing allowance and their Collective Bargaining Agreement incentives worth P15,000 this year, they said.
The healthcare workers have also yet to receive their promised clothing allowance and their Collective Bargaining Agreement incentives worth P15,000 this year, they said.
The workers vowed to conduct a series of protests until all benefits are given.
The workers vowed to conduct a series of protests until all benefits are given.
There is no statement yet from the LCP management.
There is no statement yet from the LCP management.
-- with report from Zen Hernandez, ABS-CBN News
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