BPO workers group asks who will cover the cost of mandatory testing

“Who is going to cover the cost of the COVID testing for workers?” The BPO Industry Employees Network (BIEN) posed this question to the Philippine government and the Department of Labor and Employment following the issuance of DOLE supplemental guidelines on the COVID control and prevention in the workplace. “The previous guidelines that the DOLE-DTI

BIEN sounds alarm over COVID19 outbreaks in many BPOs

“The rate is extremely alarming. We are enraged and saddened whenever we hear a co-worker in the BPO sector tested positive for COVID, let alone to hear an outbreak in a site. It is heart-breaking when we receive a report that a colleague in the industry died of it.” This is the reaction of Sarah

BIEN, other groups file SC petition for mass testing

As COVID 19 cases continue to rise in the Philippines, the BPO Industry Employees Network joined other groups of concerned citizens in filing a mandamus petition before the Supreme Court on July 3 “to compel” the country’s executive department particularly the Department of Health, the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) and other