Monthly Archives: August 2010

Some 50 Filipina workers employed as beauticians in Kuwait have sought the Philippine Embassy’s help against their employers whom they accused of illegal recruitment, oppressive labor practices, and physical and sexual abuse.

THE Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce the world’s 1.020 billion undernourished people by half between now and 2015 is still possible.

THE foreign chambers of commerce in the country here have forged an agreement with the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (Pacu) that formalizes their partnership in helping address the jobs-skills mismatch in the country.

IN order for the economy to be able to create more jobs and curb poverty, the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) said the Aquino administration will address at least seven major macroeconomic issues in the next six years.

Leaders of various public transport organizations over the weekend said they are willing to encourage their respective drivers to undergo drug testing as suggested by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Dionisio Santiago, but claimed that such move is not enough to curb the escalating incidents of deadly road accidents in the country. According…

New ADB study recommends better wages MIDDLE-class Filipino families with a large number of household members are at risk of falling into poverty if the government fails to create policies that improve wages, education and healthcare, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) study has warned. In the study, “The Rise of Asia’s Middle Class,” the Manila-based…

CEBU, Philippines – The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration clarified it has not suspended the collection of Pag-Ibig Fund membership fees from overseas Filipino workers, as reportedly ordered by Vice President Jejomar Binay in his capacity as chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council.

WASHINGTON – Singapore, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia would see their populations triple if everyone who wants to move there were allowed to, a poll released Friday by Gallup shows.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Justice has reversed its earlier resolutions and junked the qualified trafficking, kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges filed against businessman Mariano Tanenglian and his family.

Yes, because there is already an existing law on divorce providing adequate remedies which the authors of the divorce bill seek to give couples in irreparable marriages, or married women in abusive marital relationships who are victims of domestic violence, or aggrieved spouses in marriages where “love has gone”, as shown by the cruelty, infidelity,…

MANILA, Philippines – More young Filipinos now opt to become doctors apparently due to the slump in the demand for nurses abroad. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) yesterday reported an increase in the number of Filipinos entering medical school.

MANILA, Philippines – The government will adopt a freeze hiring policy next year in line with its austerity measures, President Aquino said. Mr. Aquino made this clear in last Friday’s All Leaders’ Forum with volunteer groups who helped him in the campaign.

MANILA, Philippines – The Aquino administration said it would incorporate in the next Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan programs the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

CALIFORNIA, United States—I love Filipino nurses. Next to cheap garments at Wal-Mart and female impersonators, I’d have to put them on the top of the list as the Philippines’ leading export.

MANILA, Philippines – Members of a big workers group at the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority have renewed their petition to Subic Bay Freeport Zone president Armand Arreza for help in a labor dispute affecting at least 37 employees.

Dear PAO, I have been working for a private company for over a year now. My salary is computed on a monthly basis. The company, in computing my monthly salary, multiplies 26 days to the minimum wage, but I think that I am not properly compensated since there are months, which have 31 days. Please…

Out of 100 countries, the Philippines ranked a poor 63rd in a Newsweek magazine study of the world’s best countries in terms of health, education, economy and politics. In Asia, the country was the third to the bottom in the Newsweek ranking in its latest edition.

ENVIRONMENTAL advocates on Saturday lauded a court directive halting the disposal of coal combustion waste, or coal ash, by power plants in Naga and Toledo cities as a triumph for environmental health and justice.

MANILA, Philippines – Fewer Filipinos seem to be getting married in church, and those that do tend to be older. In an interview over Church-run Radio Veritas, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP)-Episcopal Commission on Family and Life executive secretary Fr. Melvin Castro said, “There is another trend in marriages and that is, Filipinos…

MANILA, Philippines – The number of domestic air passengers has increased 10.5 percent to 8.4 million during the first half of 2010 from 7.6 million in the same period last year, according to data from the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB).

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Finance and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) are drawing up a list of all licensed professionals to find out who among them are paying the right taxes.

MANILA, Philippines—As the labor disputes in Hacienda Luisita, ABS-CBN, and Philippine Airline rages on, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has helped resolve four labor disputes in four regions.

LEGAZPI CITY, Aug. 19 (PNA)-– Media outlets like local newspaper publications as well as radio and television stations are now deputized receiving desks for labor complaints in the Bicol region.

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga: Business firms based in this freeport have made significant contributions in the export industry and employment in Central Luzon. Clark Development Corp. (CDC) president Benigno Ricafort said that the freeport has earned about $891 million from exports in the first half of the year or 33 percent of Region III’s $2.7-billion total…

THE Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Boards have approved the salary increases of workers in two regions in Visayas and Mindanao.

THREE REMAINING regions with pending petitions have yet to benefit from higher minimum pay after the Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Zamboanga Peninsula (Region 9) has approved a P15 adjustment, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – The ratio of soured loans of universal and commercial banks to the industry’s total loan portfolio improved further in June as corporate and individual borrowers were able to pay their outstanding financial obligations on time in light of the strong corporate earnings as well as faster-than-expected economic growth, the Bangko Sentral ng…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is back on the radar of global investors even in the midst of a global financial crisis as net foreign buying in the local stock market almost doubled in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2009.

MANILA, Philippines – An electrician died after getting electrocuted while fixing power lines in the house of his employer in Quezon City yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – There may be no long weekend, but workers nationwide can still enjoy additional pay.