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HR 1123 – Resolution calling onthe House of Representatives Committee on Labor and Employment and Committee onWomen and Gender Equality to conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, on theimpact of the global economic crisis on Filipino workers, particularly on theextent of retrenchment and dislocation of women workers, and on the nationaleconomy and recommend measures that would provide immediate relief to theworkers and ensure that their rights and welfare are protected as well asmeasures that would address the national impact of such massive workdisplacement

HR 1125 – A resolutiondirecting the House of Representatives Committees on Labor and Employment andHuman Rights to conduct an investigation on the violent dispersal of the ChongWon Fashion, Inc. and Phils. Jeon, Inc. workers who went on strike at theCavite Export Processing Zone (CPEZ) allegedly by Philippine Economic ZoneAuthority’s (PEZA) police force and members of Jantro Security agency, andtheir Thrity-three (33) union leaders and members by the Rosario, CaviteMunicipal Trial Court, as well as other workers’ strike, and recommend measuresto protect workers against company coercion and violence and uphold theirrights as enshrined in the Philippine Constitution

A resolution directing the House Committees on Labor, Foreign Affairs and Overseas Workers Affairs to conduct an investigation into the alleged neglect of retrenched Overseas Filipino Workers especially from the Taiwan and Korea, and recommend measures thereof including legal assistance in the filing of appropriate cases to recover their claims against erring employers in the host countries

An act allocating a contingency fund as unemployment benefit for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who have been repatriated due to expiration of contract or to retrenchment

An act removing the documentary stamp tax on all remittances from Filipinos abroad, repealing for the purpose section 181 of Republic Act No. 8424, otherwise known as the "Tax Reform Act of 1997", and for other purposes

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives urging the Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Labor and Employment and Department of Social Welfare and Development to provide general assistance to the Filipino victims of the war of aggression in the Gaza strip