LABOR DAY MESSAGE

Velasco expresses support for policies on frontliner protection

Speaker Lord Allan Velasco expressed support for policies that will further protect and benefit workers who are leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as the country observes the International Workers' Day.

“In the meantime, we need to protect our frontliners. We support policies that will expand their health and life insurance; provide them all-important protective equipment and access to the life-saving COVID-19 vaccine; and guarantee their allowance, sick leave and hazard pay,” Velasco said in his Labor Day statement.

These policies will serve as a “token of appreciation and gratitude” for the frontliners who are keeping the Filipinos healthy and helping the economy in motion, he added.

“Honoring the contributions and sacrifices of pandemic frontliners will require more than one day of recognition. This moment requires action. Since they are the ones risking it all, they deserve a greater role in charting our social and economic recovery,” Velasco said.

“We need a broad socioeconomic transformation that takes into consideration their struggles and experiences during this pandemic. We should never forget our essential and frontline workers as we build back better from COVID-19,” he added. —Hana Bordey/LBG, GMA News