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What you need to know about the mass layoff of Bacolod Water District Employees

What you need to know about the mass layoff of Bacolod Water District Employees

From previously having 500 personnel, only 23 were retained for the monitoring unit. Sixty of the retrenched employees filed a complaint to the regional office of CSC in the Western Visayas, which BACIWA responded by declaring their positions “redundant” through an office order. On August 21, 2021, the CSC ordered the reinstatement of 60 employees “without loss of seniority and shall be entitled to full pay from the time of their separation until actual reinstatement.”

| Sep 21, 2024

Approval of water privatization deal in Bacolod ‘hurried,’ ‘without proper study’ – GM

Approval of water privatization deal in Bacolod ‘hurried,’ ‘without proper study’ – GM

The joint venture, says the BEU and others against the joint venture, would turn water from a natural resource to a profit-generating commodity, to the detriment of consumers. For starters, the union says, a 12 percent value-added tax will be automatically tacked onto water bills once the deal is closed.

| Jul 19, 2019

Privatization is creating an artificial water shortage

Privatization is creating an artificial water shortage

Focusing on just Manila Water diverts the issue away from privatization as the central issue in, and underlying reason behind, the artificial shortage. As such, it also has the effect of absolving government of responsibility when in fact, the biggest accountability in all this lies with government for abandoning its duty to ensure water for the people.

| Mar 17, 2019

Bulatlat picture water concessionaires
‘Sovereign guarantees, arbitration clause in MWSS deal unconstitutional’ –BayanMuna

‘Sovereign guarantees, arbitration clause in MWSS deal unconstitutional’ –BayanMuna

Bayan Muna lawmakers asked the Supreme Court to stop this virtual “transfer of power to a private entity,” or transfer of power to decide on matters that are within the purview of MWSS, as the government regulating agency, to the concessionaires or to a private arbitration/appeals panel, the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.

| Aug 15, 2015

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