The central government’s modernization program, which falsely promises to improve working conditions, will force countless jeepney drivers into debt or out of work.
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A transport group is asking the government to allow public utility vehicle drivers to transfer the ownership of PUVs they have sold to other operators so that fines under the no-contact apprehension policy or NCAP, which is being implemented in Metro Manila cities, would not pile up.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): Malacañang has called on Congress to review Republic Act No. 8479, or the 1998 Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act, suggesting an amendment giving the government “intervention powers” during a prolonged spike in fuel prices.