The Florete-led Queen City Development Bank opened its second branch in Bacolod City in Mandalagan last Friday as part of its five-year strategic plan of expanding its branch network, a press release from the bank said.

The Queenbank Mandalagan branch, located at the ground floor of Bombo Radyo, CBS Development Corp. Building, Lacson Street, is headed by Ismael Saballa as branch officer-in-charge while its San Juan branch, by manager Jovi Linga.

Both branches offer deposit products, loans, ATM and other corporate services.

Tanduay contractuals
vote to hold strike

Contractual workers of Tanduay Distillers Inc.-Bacolod Plant will appear before the National Conciliation and Mediation Board at 2 p.m. today after holding a strike vote Saturday on their complaints of union-busting and illegal termination against the management and their agency.

Von Lachica, president of Samahan ng Manggagawa sa TDI, said he was one of those previously terminated when his contract supposedly ended on Nov. 25.

We don't really have a contract, but a job order good for five months, he said.

MTs receive highest
pay next to doctors

After doctors, medical transcriptionists now receive the highest pay in the country's health sector, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said, citing Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics.

TUCP spokesperson Alex Aguilar said in a press statement medical transcriptionists are earning higher income than medical technologists, nurses and even dentists.

The BLES Occupational Wages Survey shows that medical transcriptionists are paid an average of P10,757 in monthly wages, P1,462 or 16 percent higher than the average of P9,295 received by medical technologists.

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