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The WHD investigation determined that Fames Transport Inc. failed to pay employees on the contract for all of the hours that they worked. Work performed prior to scheduled shifts, and some work time between routes went unrecorded, and unpaid. This unpaid time led to the employer’s failure to pay re…

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brann ruled that the Trump campaign’s efforts to stop Pennsylvania officials from certifying Democrat Joe Biden as the winner in the state was “unsupported by evidence.” “This Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accu…

“The president already approved the lifting of the temporary suspension of deployment of nurses and other medical workers,” Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello told Reuters. Bello said the spread of the novel coronavirus was slowing down in the country and conditions were improving, so the government c…

The decision to shutter schools and revert exclusively to at-home learning, starting on Thursday, came as state and local officials nationwide imposed restrictions on social and economic life to tamp down a surge in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations heading into winter. But eight months after New…

February 9 to November 17 data from the Department of Health showed that these 10,333 with SARS-CoV-2 were mostly land-based migrants (6,486, or 62.8% of the total). The rest (3,847) were seafarers. Six of these returning overseas Filipinos have died, five of whom are land-based migrants, the Burea…

Just days after the first Marshall Islands Covid-19 case — an American Army base worker — was cleared in mid-November as no longer contagious, three Marshall Islanders in the first repatriation group to return home from Hawaii turned up with positive tests two weeks into their three-week quarantine…

In a televised speech meant to discuss the government response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent spate of typhoons, Duterte lashed out at Robredo for supposedly criticizing him for his absence during the onslaught of Typhoon Vamco which is known here as Typhoon Ulysses. Duterte accused the vi…

Trump has made debunked allegations that the election was “rigged” and has refused to concede defeat to President-elect Joe Biden. His campaign has filed a flurry of lawsuits in battleground states, although election officials in both parties have said they see no evidence of serious irregularities…

Ossoff, who is running to unseat Republican Sen. David Perdue in a pair of Jan. 5 runoffs that will determine Senate control, expressed concern about Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s claim that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham questioned the validity of legally cast absentee ballots in…