
DOLE: Covid-19 testing not required; employers must cover cost if they want to test
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said employers who would require returning employees to be tested for Covid-19 would have to shoulder the cost.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said employers who would require returning employees to be tested for Covid-19 would have to shoulder the cost.
The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) denied the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital’s allegation that the state-run agency owed it P180 million in reimbursements.
The head of the Dominican Order in the Philippines has halted the retrenchment of non-frontliner employees of the hospital being run by its top educational institution in the country, the University of Santo Tomas (UST).
The University of Santo Tomas Hospital plans to lay off some “non-frontliner” personnel and adapt other cost-saving measures as financial losses brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic continued to balloon.
From the current P100 per month per member, the contribution will increase to P150 in January 2021 and will further go up to P200 in 2023