The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today said that some 250,000 local and overseas jobs will be offered to graduates, new entrants to the labor force, and other workers especially those who were affected by the global crisis at May 1 Jobapalooza ’09 job fair marking the Labor Day celebrations in 16 regions nationwide.
More and more new graduates and jobseekers are riding on the wave of opportunity by registering with the country’s biggest jobs fair dubbed “Tayo Na! Trabaho Na! JOBapalooza ’09” as Labor Day approaches, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today reported.
In celebration of Labor Day on Friday, May 1, 2009, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in partnership with Globe Telecom will launch a call, text, and online hotline service for the local workforce and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) seeking immediate information on local and overseas jobs and other relevant updates and services.
Filipino consumers are not likely to buy new mobile-phone handset this year because of the global financial crisis, the International Data Corp. (IDC) said Thursday. In its Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, IDC said that mobile-phone shipments in the Philippines fell 20 percent in the fourth quarter of last year and expected to continue in…
EMPLOYMENT in Philippine industries in the fourth quarter of last year dropped at its fastest pace since the third quarter of 2007, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said Thursday.
Many, many years ago when I was still rather new to the Philippines, a Filipino said to me if the Philippines was a centipede it would shoot itself in every foot—well, there aren’t many feet left, but here we go again.
At least 100,000 families can save their homes from foreclosure under an amnesty program that will take effect on May 4, the National Housing Authority said yesterday.
A food export leader has called on the Arroyo government to take the current crisis as a platform to institute lasting reforms in the farm sector, the first of which is a permanent ban on the conversion of irrigated and prime agriculture lands to non-agricultural uses.
The United Nations (UN) reiterated yesterday the Arroyo administration’s lack of commitment to uphold human rights despite the insistence of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, who represented the government in the UN meeting at Geneva, that President Arroyo remained committed to the ideals and vision of the UN’s Universal Declaration on Human Rights of attaining “dignity…
March –
IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week;
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and “
Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 27: Earth Hour
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