MANILA, Philippines — Close to a thousand employees of the National Food Authority (NFA) will lose their jobs as the agency will undergo restructuring following the enactment of the rice tariffication law. So it’s about close to 1,000 workers (who will lose their jobs),” NFA officer-in-charge administrator Tomas Escarez told journalists yesterday. Draft IRR completedThe National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has completed drafting the IRR for the Rice Tariffication Act in anticipation of the signing of the bill into law. Technical working groups were created to discuss key provisions of the bill and provide inputs to the draft IRR. The draft IRR contains provisions on the removal of NFA’s regulatory powers and the streamlining of import requirements.

Source: Philippine Star February 19, 2019 16:00 UTC