#ThewRap: Things you need to know, April 6, 2018

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#ThewRap: Things you need to know, April 6, 2018
Here are the stories you shouldn't miss this Friday

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After ordering fast food giant Jollibee, as well as Burger King, to regularize thousands of employees, the labor department says it is inspecting McDonalds and KFC next to check their compliance with labor standards. Then the intensified campaign against contractualization will go to malls, economic zones, BPOs, and banks. 

Meanwhile, the Philippines’ competition body wants ride-hailing services Uber and Grab to continue separate operations even after Uber sold its Southeast Asian operations to the Singapore-based Grab.  

Here are the major stories you shouldn’t miss.  

After Jollibee, these businesses are next on the DOLE inspections list

The Department of Labor and Employment says it will intensify checks on how other fast food chains, malls, economic zones, BPOs, banks are complying with labor standards.

PCC asks Uber, Grab to continue separate operations beyond April 8

But Uber Asia Pacific chief business officer Brooks Entwistle says the company no longer has the capital and people to continue its operations in the Philippines and 7 other markets.

Facebook says 87 million may be affected by data privacy scandal

Mark Zuckerberg says he accepts responsibility for the failure to protect user data, but maintains that he is still the best person to lead the network of two billion users.

Duterte accepts resignation of Aguirre

FRAT BROTHERS. President Rodrigo Duterte has a long friendship with Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II. The two are brothers at the San Beda Law Lex Taleonis Fraternity. File photo by Richard Madelo/Presidential photo

“I accepted the resignation of Vit Aguirre, my fraternity brother,” President Rodrigo Duterte announces.

Sereno wants 4 justices to inhibit from quo warranto case

SC JUSTICES. Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno claims that (left to right) Associate Justices Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Francis Jardeleza, and Noel Tijam cannot be impartial in the quo warranto petition filed against her. Photos from the Supreme Court

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno says associate justices Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Francis Jardeleza, and Noel Tijam “cannot decide the quo warranto petition objectively and impartially.”

Duterte wants to ‘abolish’ Evasco-led NFA Council

During a meeting with rice traders, the President also expresses an intention to transfer the National Food Authority and the National Irrigation Administration out of Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr’s supervision and back under the Department of Agriculture.

Expelled diplomats leave U.S. embassy in Moscow

Dozens of American diplomats and their families – the first batch – leave the embassy compound on 3 buses and a minibus.

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