Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on the government’s extension of granting special risk allowance to pandemic frontliners

The Commission on Human Rights lauds the move of the government in extending the grant of the special risk allowance (SRA) to all health workers—both private and public—as the country continues to face the Covid-19 pandemic. With the signing of Administrative Order No. 42 of the President, medical frontliners are entitled to a continuous grant […]