Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte has underscored the role of Congress in ensuring that graduates are ready for employment and that the issue of job-skills mismatch is effectively addressed.

Duterte said many graduates find themselves jobless because their skills are not commensurate with the demands in the job market.

A LAWMAKER has underscored the need for Congress to do its part in making Filipino graduates “employment-ready” by swiftly acting on proposed education reforms that would effectively address the jobs-skills mismatch in the country and bolster enterprise-based education.

These measures, along with his recently filed bill that seeks to establish early learning programs for indigent pre-kindergarten children, will help lessen the effects of the pandemic-induced education crisis in the country, Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte said.

NAGHAIN ng panukalang batas sa mababang kapulungan ng Kongreso na pupuntirya sa mga abusadong kolektor ng online lending apps o OLA
Base sa “Fair Debt Connection Practices Act” na nakapaloob sa House Bill (HB) 6681 na inakda ni Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte, sinabi nito na kailangang tapusin na ang pagiging abusado ng mga debt collector at pagsasamantala ng mga OLA.

“More victims have continued to come out to report being harassed, shamed, threatened, and forced to pay usurious interest charges. Both the Executive and Congress need to act fast to put an end to these inhumane debt collection practices,” ayon sa mambabatas.

Isang nakakabahalang pangyayari ang patuloy na pagdami ng bilang ng mga batang napipilitang tumigil na mag-aral para makapagtrabaho. Sa kanilang murang edad, sila ay nasasabak sa mga gawaing hindi naman dapat trabaho ng mga bata.

Marami sa mga magulang ng child laborer ay hindi gusto ang kalagayang ito para sa kanilang anak.

DAVAO CITY Rep. Paolo Duterte on Monday urged Congress to immediately pass a bill that would regulate the online lending industry and expressly prohibit unfair, deceptive and shameful debt collection practices.

Duterte said House Bill (HB) 6681 would protect financial borrowers from public shaming, extortionate interest charges and other "vicious" online lending practices.

LAWMAKERS have underscored the urgency of passing a law to shield borrowers from public shaming, extortionate interest charges and other vicious online lending practices despite a supposed government crackdown against abusive moneylenders.

Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Z. Duterte seeks bills seeking to regulate the online lending sector when Congress resumes session in two weeks’ time. Duterte said prioritizing the discussion of these bills would speed up the passage of a law that would expressly prohibit the unfair, deceptive, and shameful practices resorted to by online loan sharks.

In early 2018, I wrote a four-part series on the travails of the “habal-habal”, the motorcycle-for-ride transport mode not only in the Philippines but in almost all countries in the global south. This was at that time that former Mayor Osmeña created the Two-wheeled Motorized Vehicle Monitoring, Coordinating, and Assistance Unit (TMV-MCAU) under EO No. 023 s.2017. Pending the passage of a law in Congress, this was an attempt to manage this half-a-century-old mode of mobility used by millions of Filipinos.

This rejoinder is prompted by a news article yesterday on Davao Representative Paolo Duterte’s lament on the delay of the “pilot study” on the “viability and safety” of motorcycles-for-hire as a mode of commuter transport, promised by LTFRB in 2019. “It has dragged on, continuing on its fourth year – with no certainty on when this would be concluded and its recommendations released to the public,” he said. I certainly agree --studies like this usually wouldn’t take four months, maybe six months at most. A friend of mine even commented, “why do a study on something Filipinos have been seeing and using for the last 40 years?”

MANILA – Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte on Monday urged Congress to immediately pass a bill that would regulate the online lending industry and expressly prohibit unfair, deceptive and shameful debt collection practices.

Duterte said House Bill (HB) 6681 would protect financial borrowers from public shaming, extortionate interest charges and other "vicious" online lending practices.

The government should intensify its efforts to pin down online lenders who shame and employ vicious collection tactics on its borrowers, a lawmaker said Monday.

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Davao City lawmaker Paolo Duterte added that Congress should do its part by tackling proposed bills that aim to regulate the online lending sector when it resumes session on July 24.

Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte has cited the urgency of passing a law that would protect financial borrowers from public shaming, extortionate interest charges, and other vicious online lending practices that continue to claim more victims despite a supposed government crackdown against abusive moneylenders.

He called on Congress to immediately tackle bills that aim to regulate the online lending sector when it resumes session in two weeks, so as to speed up the passage of a law that would expressly prohibit the unfair, deceptive, and shameful practices resorted to by online loan sharks.

In a statement on Monday, Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte asked Congress to immediately tackle bills that would regulate the online lending industry once it resumes session after July 24.

Duterte said he filed House Bill (HB) No. 6681 last December 2022 to stop the harassment and unfair treatment of debtors. However, it is still with the House committee on banks and financial intermediaries as of now.

Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte has pushed for the swift approval of a measure that would protect financial borrowers from public shaming, extortionate interest charges, and other vicious online lending practices.

Duterte said abusive debt collectors continue to victimize borrowers despite a supposed government crackdown against them.