Monthly Archives: September 2010

Normally I don’t stay in the office to supervise the work of 15 employees who are my direct reports in our small business. This leaves them enough opportunity to violate our attendance and punctuality policies, if not horse around while I’m away. I can’t afford to buy those expensive CCTV and automated timekeeping devices. What’s…

MANILA, Philippines — One of the country’s largest labor groups urged the government on Saturday to blacklist an American dentures-maker for allegedly defrauding his Filipino workers of P50 million in wages.

THE PHILIPPINES is creating more jobs but too many skilled people are still unable to find work, economic planning chief Cayetano Paderanga said yesterday.

BUSINESSMEN ON Friday outlined their concerns on the economy and governance at a meeting in Malacañang with President Benigno C. Aquino III.

Business process outsourcing (BPO) firms that offer high-end services are finding it hard to fill worker requirements, with only one out 10 applicants able to pass the application process, the head of WNS Philippines said.

MANILA, Philippines—The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) is seeking P700 million for scholarships next year under its proposed P2.85-billion budget as it aims to have more employable graduates of technical and vocational courses.

THERE IS need to regain the pre-crisis growth momentum and increase aid especially for developing countries to meet poverty reduction goals, two international organizations said days before a high-level summit to assess progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—Vice President Jejomar Binay on Thursday announced the allocation of P30 billion in loanable funds to meet the increased targets of socialized housing nationwide.

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has clarified that the Japanese licensure examination for nurses will not entirely be translated into English.

THE Philippine government would have to pursue fiscal reforms if it were to have a chance of meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a nongovernment organization (NGO) said on the eve of President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s visit to the US. The President is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly and report…

President Benigno Aquino 3rd on Friday said that his administration is wary of appointing officials, disclosing that he almost made the mistake of appointing someone to a key law-enforcement position.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. has called for a performance audit of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in providing assistance to Filipino workers in distress.

MANILA, Philippines – The ratio of non-performing loans of universal and commercial banks to the industry’s total loan portfolio improved further to 3.37 percent in July from 3.49 percent in the same period last year as the surprising economic growth in the first half of the year as well as strong corporate earnings enabled borrowers…

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – President Aquino wants the more than 4.6 million poor Filipinos to be relieved from poverty and have better lives by 2015.

MANILA, Philippines – As Congress organized the 25-man panel of the bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA) last Wednesday, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said the CA cannot scrutinize the credentials of the three acting secretaries appointed by President Aquino.

MANILA, Philippines – Only four of the 305 reported cases of unexplained killings in the country have resulted in convictions since 2001, a study by a human rights lawyer showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The House committee on housing will look into the reported losses incurred by the Home Guaranty Corp. (HGC), one of several housing agencies under new housing czar Vice President Jejomar Binay.

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A unit of the Office of the President has denounced the Philippine Airlines’ alleged discriminatory policies against female flight attendants.

MALACAÑANG is having difficulty filling 4,300 vacancies before an election-period ban on new appointments takes effect on Sept. 25.

MANILA, Philippines — The new leadership of the Philippine National Police (PNP) will push for the establishment of a human rights help desk in every police station in the country amid allegations of torture allegedly perpetrated by an officer and his men on an arrested snatcher in Manila.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – President Aquino said the government will study the possibility of using nuclear energy to solve Mindanao’s power problem even if it is a “hot bottle issue.”

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Pilar Juliana “Pia” Cayetano has filed a resolution calling for an investigation into the alleged “exploitative” practices employed by some hospitals regarding the hiring of registered nurses and nursing graduates.

For years, and column after column to the point of being boring, I’ve pushed for the development of mining. I’ve been devastated by the level of poverty in the Philippines, and the frankly inhuman way far, far too many have to live. So I’ve never understood why the Philippine Catholic Church is so vehemently and…

AMID soldiers’ clamor for  payment of their monthly pension, the National Defense department has ordered the Armed Forces to study the feasibility of creating a new retirement and benefit System for the military and police personnel.

In the Philippines, a predominantly Catholic nation, the Church is the biggest hindrance to the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, a women’s advocate group said. The RH bill, which proposes to “guarantee to universal access to medically-safe, legal, affordable and quality reproductive health care services,” is one of the most contentious issues in…

IMF’s Japanese affiliate IMF-JC wants to improve the working conditions of precarious workers and makes a strong international commitment in its new Action Program. JAW plans to organize 26,000 workers in the automotive industries.

GENEVA—The protective ozone layer in the earth’s upper atmosphere has stopped thinning and should largely be restored by mid-century thanks to a ban on harmful chemicals, UN scientists said on Thursday.

FOREIGN PORTFOLIO investments — referred to as “hot money” for the ease with which they enter and exit local markets — grew more than five times in the eight months to August, final data the central bank released yesterday showed.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has issued stricter guidelines for vehicular emissions to reduce air pollution in Metro Manila.