Dismissal without due process | The Manila Times
Dear PAO, My co-employees and I were removed from our work at a construction contracting firm after we had filed a labor case against it. We only wanted our labor standard benefits, so we filed a case for underpayment of wages and overtime pay. However, no Notice to Explain or Notice of Termination was ever […]
Can Backcountry Skiing Survive in the Northeast?
Early last February, at the Mount Washington Backcountry Ski Festival in New Hampshire, the organizers faced an increasingly common problem: Terrible snow. Four days of temperatures over 40 degrees combined with an already shallow snowpack had rendered many backcountry ski zones unskiable. Up on Mount Washington, where the higher elevations usually mean colder temperatures, what […]
Length of service in crimes involving moral turpitude
Dear PAO, My daughter has been a stellar public employee. She has worked for the government for twenty (20) long years and has always been an outstanding employee. Unfortunately, she got married to an individual who happens to be married to another woman. A criminal case was filed against her for Bigamy and she, together […]
Spirit Airlines Is on Shaky Footing After Judge Blocks JetBlue Deal
Spirit Airlines, once a fast-growing low-cost carrier, is struggling to convince investors that it has a clear path forward after an antitrust ruling blocked the sale of the company to JetBlue Airways. A federal judge in Boston blocked the proposed merger on Tuesday, concurring with the Justice Department that the deal would hurt consumers by […]
Sale of property without the consent of a co-heir
Dear PAO, My parents were married in the year 1980, and my mother died in 2019. I found out that a year after my mother died, my father sold one of their properties, which they acquired in 1998, without my consent. I am their only child, and when I confronted my father about the sale, […]
Will Airline Prices Finally Drop?
A record 4.7 billion passengers are expected to fly globally in 2024, up from the previous record of 4.5 billion in 2019, according to the International Air Transport Association. Analysts at American Express Global Business Travel say that average ticket prices across all regions are not expected to change significantly. But in the United States, […]
Collation of donation and procedure to determine legitime
Dear PAO, My parents donated a 300-square-meter lot to me. I have already developed and introduced improvements to the lot. Three years after my parents’ demise, my two siblings relayed to me their intention to partition the 1-hectare farm land which forms part of the estate of our parents. I relayed to them that I […]
Salter House Makes Ballet Flats for the Bow Obsessed
When the Moroccan financier Aziz Nahas decided to buy and regenerate a farm outside Marrakesh about two decades ago, he underestimated how much would grow there. Now, the 10-acre plot produces organic vegetables and fruits as well as hosting an artist residency program and a ceramic studio, all under the name Sanctuary Slimane. In 2021, […]
Online sexual harassment | The Manila Times
Dear PAO, I was in a 12-year relationship that ended based on our mutual decision. The initial months post-breakup were peaceful. But around six months later, my ex-partner began sending persistent messages expressing love and longing. Despite my requests to stop, the communication escalated to explicit videos containing sexual contents and requests for video calls. […]
Will Passports Be Replaced by Biometrics?
In the year ahead, the use of biometrics — an individual’s unique physical identifiers, such as fingerprints and faces — will be expanded at airports in the United States and abroad, a shift to enhance security, replace physical identification such as passports and driver’s licenses, and reduce the amount of time required by travelers to […]