{"id":52733,"date":"2015-06-23T16:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T08:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52733"},"modified":"2015-06-23T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T08:43:36","slug":"kentex-victims-to-receive-p151200-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/23\/kentex-victims-to-receive-p151200-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentex victims to receive P151,200 settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49307\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Picture-1-Valenzuela-fire.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49307\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Picture-1-Valenzuela-fire-300x222.png\" alt=\"Slipper factory in Barangay Ugong, Valenzuela City is engulfed by a thick smoke from the fire. (Photo courtesy of Valenzuela City Twitter account)\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Picture-1-Valenzuela-fire-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Picture-1-Valenzuela-fire.png 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slipper factory in Barangay Ugong, Valenzuela City is engulfed by a thick smoke from the fire. (Photo courtesy of Valenzuela City Twitter account)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Kentex Manufacturing Corp. will be giving P151,200 in settlement fees to at least 57 victims of the fire in the slipper factory in Valenzuela last May 13.<\/p>\n<p>The families and representatives of the fire victims have agreed in the settlement package, according to Lawyer Renato Paraiso, representative of the Kentex management.<\/p>\n<p>The package will include\u00a0P100,000 in death benefits, P30,000 cash for the identification of the remains of the victims, P10,000 burial assistance, P6,200 for funeral services, and P5,000 travel assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Paraiso said that while other families are asking for P4 million, at least 10 families have already agreed with the settlement package they are offering.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them are even willing to settle within the week, according to the lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the package applies to all the victims regardless of their employment status but remained silent on whether the same package will apply to the injured contractual employees.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, noted that the company will also shoulder the medical employees of injured regular employees\u00a0and will also be given separation pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Kentex Manufacturing Corp. will be giving P151,200 in settlement fees to at least 57 victims of the fire &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":49307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}