Monthly Archives: June 2011

STATEMENT TUCP  VICE PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO C. VILLAVIZA WORKERS’ DELEGATE, PHILIPPINES 100th INTERNATIONA LABOR CONFERENCE, GENEVA Introduction Mr. President, on behalf of unions, workers and their families in the Philippines, let me express complete support for the call of the ILO and the Director General’s vision of sustainable development for social justice. Certainly, “the world needs…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines wound up third overall in the 12th ASEAN + age-group chess championships, winning 17 gold medals at the Indoor Telaga Kramat Stadium in Tarakan, Indonesia last Sunday.

Lilibeth Masamloc is all of 22. She started working as a maid at13. At the International Labor Organization meeting in Geneva, she prodded member countries to adopt a convention that would curb serf-like treatment of 53 million domestic workers worldwide.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz has taken note of the demand of the Negros Panay Alliance of Labor for a review of Wage Order No. 19, that grants a P12 a day Emergency Cost of Living Allowance for three months only to minimum wage earners in Western Visayas, NPAL convenors Wennie Sancho and Randy Ronquillo said…

This is the seventh and last of a series of environmental columns that I started writing last April, right at the time the world was celebrating Earth Hour. Using how Western and Chinese thought have classified the elements of the world (the subject of the first column), I have written about Earth (agriculture and land),…

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Loren Legarda has put passion into another new advocacy of hers; she wants Human Rights subject to be included in the school curricula, whether private or public. This is to ensure that all students will be made aware of their rights and to prevent them from becoming victims of human rights…

THE boycott of Coca-Cola products to be launched by consumer group, Sugar Watch, in Negros Occidental on June 22 is seen to cut more than 50 percent of the company’s gross sales in the province.

MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III signed into law several pro-poor bills, including the mandatory immunization for children and the extension of the lifeline electricity rates for poor consumers.

10 Tips to Help Make a Great Fist Impression Show me a person who wears jeans and a sweatshirt to an interview, and I’ll show you someone who won’t get the job. What you wear to a job interview matters. Period. Whether you’re applying for a job as a  cashier or as an account executive,…

All the savvy preparation in the world will come to nothing if a candidate fails to use common sense at the most critical point in the process — the actual job interview.

Israel relies on cheap labor from migrant workers from other countries. Those workers are being forced to live under new, increasingly stringent laws. This story was originally covered by PRI’s The World. On a recent Saturday in south Tel Aviv, hundreds of children and their mothers gathered in Levinski Park. In a festive spurt of…

MANILA, Philippines – The government needs P120 billion for 10 years to support a new and reformed military retirement system and to address its pension arrears, an official of the armed forces’ Retirement and Separation Benefits System (RSBS) said.

MANILA, Philippines – One firm empowers waste hauling trucks running on used vegetable oil, while another converts its shampoo sachets and detergent bar wrappers from plastic wastes into cement pavements.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino domestic helpers are widely abused in Middle East countries because they are not covered by labor laws in these nations, a labor attaché said recently.

MANILA, Philippines – More young workers and other jobseekers are opting for local employment, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano has warned under-spending agencies of severe budget cuts in 2012 if they would not spend their present allocations for important projects.

HONG KONG – Environment-friendly coffee cups and food boxes made from corn cobs and rice stalks produced by small-scale farmers won for a team of young Philippine entrepreneurs the “Best of the Best Award” at the 2011 Young Entrepreneur Awards (YEA) Regional Finals of the HSBC last Monday here.

MANILA, Philippines – Facebook has figured in crime news lately as some victims reportedly met their assailants on the popular social networking site. But an information technology (IT) expert said Facebook is not the only playground of bad elements. Criminals are everywhere.

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A career and recruitment solutions provider, Monster Philippines, has launched its ‘Return2Home’ program encouraging Filipinos residing abroad to explore job opportunities in their homeland.

The landmark treaty setting standards for the treatment of domestic workers that was adopted at the International Labour Conference in Geneva has been widely hailed as a milestone. The Convention and accompanying Recommendation on decent work for domestic workers aim at protecting and improving the working and living conditions of domestic workers worldwide – estimated…

Today, representatives from 143 countries meet in Geneva to debate whether chrysotile asbestos, the kind mined mainly in Canada, should be added to an international treaty regulating the trade in hazardous chemicals. Asbestos is a mineral considered an employment savior in Quebec, a carcinogenic killer elsewhere and a dominant industrial substance in certain developing countries.…

If you have a task interview scheduled in the coming days, you might be a bit nervous. It’s okay to become nervous, but right now you would like to concentrate on the preparation. All of us realize that you need to display up on time for a job interview and be dressed expert, but what…

MANILA, Philippines — The Aquino administration is looking at slashing its subsidies to government owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) next year by almost half of this year’s programmed budget.

MANILA, Philippines – Corporate information appears to be on the target list of a growing number of cybercriminals, who have capitalized on a variety of social engineering techniques to target the weakest link in any type of information security structure — the employees.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has prohibited bank executives from holding multiple positions in related microfinance non-government organizations (NGOs) or foundations to prevent abuses resulting in higher operational risks.

MANILA, Philippines – European countries may stop hiring Filipino seafarers. Labor Undersecretary Danilo Cruz reported that the European Commission’s Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has found deficiencies in the country’s maritime training education and certification system that could lead to ban in deployment of Filipino seafarers in European Union-flagged vessels.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed a petition of a group of commercial pilots to reinstate the pilots of Philippine Airlines (PAL), who claimed they were illegally dismissed in 1998.

Eight Cebuano congressmen have signified their opposition to House Bill 4244 also known as the Reproductive Health bill, and if this is any indication, the Catholic Church maybe slowly but surely winning the campaign against the controversial population measure.

SINGAPORE should consider legislation that makes employers give their domestic helpers a rest day every week, said Madam Halimah Yacob, the Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports.