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Thursday, November 10, 2016

GetCraft to Hold Philippine Content Marketing Meetup: The Past, The Present & The Future


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GetCRAFT Philippines will be having its inaugural event here in Manila to mark the launch of their online content marketing platform next week! 
This will be the first of a series of meetups, aimed to spark conversations around content marketing and its benefits for digital publishers and/or creators. 
The event will take place on Tuesday, November 15, 6 P.M. at The Brewery at The Palace, BGC.
In recent years, we have seen how Content Marketing and Native Advertising have become key pillars for any brand looking to increase awareness, educate and inspire their audience and drive sales. 
At their first event, GetCraft will therefore want to make a quick look at where the industry has come from, what's happening today, and what the future will look like. 
To help answer these questions, they have industry experts, namely Carlo Ople, Chief Digital Officer at Dentsu Digit JaymeSyfu / Dentsu Digit; Lucien Dy Toco, EVP at Philstar Media Group; Patrick Searle, , followed by a lively Q&A:

Hontiveros Wants Women Workers to Get 150 days of Maternity Leave


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Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros on November 10, 2016 pushed for the passage of a law that will provide women workers 150 days of paid maternity leave.

In a press briefing organized by IndustriALL, a global union which represents 50 million workers in 140 countries in the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors, Hontiveros said that she filed Senate Bill No. 215 otherwise known as the "Expanded Maternity Leave Law of 2016" to double women workers' maternity leave from the current 60 days to 120 days, with extra 30 days for solo mothers. She said there is an urgent need for the government and the business community to pay its share in easing the multiple burden of working women.

Hontiveros, who also chairs the Senate Committee on Women and Gender Equality, said that her committee has already conducted its first hearing on the bill. The Senator explained that the current maternity leave law must be radically amended as it provides the lowest number of maternity leave days in the whole ASEAN region, alongside Malaysia.

"Filipino women workers can only take a maternity leave of 60 days pay while those who undergo caesarian deliveries are entitled to only 78 leave days with pay. This pales in comparison to countries like Vietnam which provides 120-180 maternity leave days or even the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) standard of 98 days," Hontiveros said.


Adoptive parents and alternative care-givers

Hontiveros said that her bill also seeks to recognize the role of adoptive parents and alternate caregivers (spouse, common-law partner, relative up to the 4th degree of consanguinity) by extending to them the benefits of her proposed bill, such as allocating at most thirty days of the maternity leave to an alternate caregiver.

"Adoptive parenting and alternative care-giving are real parenting. Giving adoptive parents and alternative care-givers ample time for child-rearing will amplify the cohesion of the family", Hontiveros said.


Increased maternity leave to reduce child mortality


Hontiveros said that increasing women workers' maternity leave will greatly reduce child mortality in the Philippines. Citing a study from the United Nations Children’s Fund, she said that the extension of paid maternity leave increased breastfeeding rates from 10 to 80%, providing ample protection against disease and life-threatening illnesses.

“We cannot punish women workers who give birth with an inadequate and internationally-inferior maternity law. It's time for a maternity law that has a strong emphasis on women workers' rights, particularly reproductive rights, which historically have been the onus of women, and have largely been left with minimum respect and recognition in Philippine society," Hontiveros concluded.

IIEE-CSC Proudly Presents Electrical Engineering and Technology Student Summit


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Good day EE and EET Wizards!

The IIEE-Council of Student Chapter's Ministry of Magic is casting an Accio spell unto your school to summon all of you in this year’s Electrical Engineering and Technology Student Summit.

Enjoy the journey of learning new things more than creating potions, defending yourselves against dark arts or challenging your wits and guts in arithmancy and be part of all the activities; Plant tour, Seminars, Quiz Brawls and many more.

So swish and flick your wand to lift up your spirit, get your acceptance letter on the files downloadable below, take the Hogwarts Express and see you at the SMX Convention Center this 3rd Week of November (24 and 25).

Be courageous like a Gryffindor
Clever like a Ravenclaw
Steadfast like a Hufflepuff and
Ambitious like a Slytherin

as the IIEE CSC dare you to unleash your inner wizard and let your patronus shine as we summon you in this upcoming 3rd EETSS and together let us experience the magic that awaits upon us.

Don’t let muggles turn you down and send your owls to accept our requests.

DOWNLOAD LINK
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cz4mlkmuf…/3rd%20EETSS%202016.zip…

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