DOLE panel from ‘Eddie Garcia bill’ seen

n ByMARICEL V. CRUZ

CAMARINES Sur Rep. Luis Raymund

Villafuerte has expressed hope that the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) would soon put up a tripartite council meant to guarantee all workers in the film and TV-radio entertainment industries a safe environment in their workplace.

This would include commensurate compensation and regulated work hours for their unconventional job schedules.

Villafuerte made the appeal as he is confident of the Senate’s favorable on the House-approved “Eddie Garcia” bill that mandates the DOLE’s creation of a Film, Television and Radio Entertainment Industry Tripartite Council.

A lead author of HB 1270, Villafuerte said this Council is envisioned to help oversee the implementation of the House-passed “Eddie Garcia Act,” which seeks full job protection for all workers in these three sectors, including independent contractors who are hired to do production work and other services like distribution and exhibition of content.

“Such labor-related protection during their work hours and adequate or commensurate compensation for their services are required by the House-passed bill for all of the work hours of these regular and contractual workers, more so when their jobs involve out-of-town shoots and/or lockin production requiring them to stay within sets or location sites for 24 hours straight or even for several days or months,” Villafuerte, president of the National Unity Party, said.

BARMM top tax-remitting agencies lauded in BIR 2022 yearend report

n By NASH B. MAULANA

COTABATO CITY— Five agencies of the Bangsamoro Government were cited in a yearend report of the Bureau of Internal Revenue as top tax-remitting public offices in the records of the BIR’s District No. 107 in this city.

The BIR District Office made the recognition on March 2 honoring the five agencies of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in ceremonies marking the start of the year’s BIR Tax Campaign here.

BARMM’s contribution to the national government’s intensified tax campaign has been generated through taxes withheld from goods and ser-