Monthly Archives: March 2012

A power-hungry world needs clean, reliable energy sources, but the cost of nuclear, and heightened safety concerns from Fukushima, have stalled nuclear’s expansion. The modular reactor proposed by Babcock & Wilcox, one of a new generation of designs meant to address safety and cost. The slideshow below shows how it would be placed vertically and…

Anticipating American firms that are benefiting from outsourcing to oppose the proposed US Call Center Work and Consumer Protection Act pending in the US Congress, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said the business process outsourcing industry will continue to create jobs for Filipinos.

A TOTAL of 2,087 Filipinos living with the human immunodeficiency virus are now on anti-retroviral therapy, an official said Friday. Rep. Arnel Ty of the sectoral party LPG Marketers’ Association says the number does not include those who have died, left the country or decided to stop taking therapy.

THE NUMBER of Filipinos who are under medication for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have risen by 39% compared to the same time last year, data from the Health department show.

Key performance indicators (KPI) are all the rage these days for contact centers, but they aren’t all created equally. It’s always a good idea to collect metrics, of course, but are you collecting the right ones? And what are you doing with them once you’ve got the data?

An official of the United Nation’s (UN) International Labor Organization (ILO) on Thursday called on the Philippines to give indigenous peoples, particularly women, more economic and leadership opportunities as they can help the country grow.

STUDY SAYS MANILA, Philippines—Despite the popular notion that women were now making strides in the workplace, Filipino women still suffer from lower wages and lower quality jobs when compared to their male counterparts, a labor think-tank said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada lauded yesterday the approval on second reading of the bill that seeks to end job discrimination against women.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines rose eight notches to 107th from last year’s ranking of 115th and garnered an Economic Freedom Score (EFS) of 57.1 this year, an improvement from the country’s previous score of 56.2.

(Reuters) – The Philippines is the world’s call-centre capital, but will need more graduates and better trained professionals if it’s to be a major force in the broader outsourcing market, where growth is in providing research and analytics for the legal, healthcare and financial industries.

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THE WORLD has achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on safe drinking water, the United Nations (UN) said, even as it noted that the target in improving sanitation globally may not be reached before the 2015 deadline.

PH to lose $700M in remittances MANILA, Philippines—Filipino seamen could be banned from European ships and the Philippines could lose $700 million in remittances if “deficiencies” in the seamen’s training and education were not addressed, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) warned on Thursday.

Tagalog CSR Jobs basically refer to customer service representatives that communicate in Tagalog or a mix of Tagalog and English. Most available Tagalog CSR Jobs usually pertain to call center of local companies that caters the local market.

Singapore’s decision to grant a weekly rest day to its foreign domestic workers, including Filipinos, was significant but fell short of international standards, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

There are signs that the Philippine economy is headed toward brighter directions. What are these and will that brighter future be attained? “The signs.” First, despite the desolate overall world economic conditions at the moment, the same stormy clouds for the industrial and more developed economies are creating conditions that favor the Philippine economy.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, March 7 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Regional Director Johnson G. Cañete disclosed in a media interactive forum held on Monday at the DOLE-10 Regional Office that they recently launched the “Child Labor-Free Bukidnon” campaign as part of its child labor prevention and elimination drive.

The Department of Labor and Employment 6 recently rescued four Aetas, including a minor, employed as sacadas in an hacienda in Brgy. Purisima, Manapla, Negros Occidental, a press release from DOLE said.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Government incurred a budget deficit of P197.754 billion in 2011, below last year’s ceiling of P300 billion and narrower than the P314.4 billion reported in 2010, National Treasurer Roberto Tan said in a press briefing yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Manabat Sanagustin & Co. (MS&Co.), one of the leading auditing and advisory firms in the country and an independent member firm of KPMG International Cooperative, believes the Philippines can expect a strong flow of Japanese investments this year as the country continues to emerge as an ideal investment hub and a potential…

IT would be better for the government to work on improving the quality of education being given to students rather than increasing the number years a student spends in school because compared to other southeast Asian countries the Philippines has been allotting more time to science education alone.

Daily power outages in southern Philippines now last much longer than the two to four hours that were earlier reported. Lualhati Antonino, the chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority, on Monday said that the hardest hit in Mindanao by the rotating brownouts of six to eight hours every day is SOCCSKSARGEN (South Cotabato, Cotabato City,…

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga, Philippines – The Clark Development Corp. (CDC) is investigating the collapse of a warehouse that killed at least four workers and left five others injured when it was hit by a tornado last Friday.

After admitting that it cannot do anything to stop private colleges and universities from raising their tuition, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on Monday appealed to the public for understanding, saying that quality education has a corresponding price.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) urged nursing graduates to explore other careers in the healthcare industry which is in demand here and abroad. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said that an array of non-clinical, yet, medical-related job opportunities as alternate careers are being offered by healthcare firms to licensed nurses, nursing graduates, and other…

Legazpi City, Mar 6 (PIA) — Contractual workers across Bicol region need not worry losing their jobs hastily, intimidated, and anxious of unpromising future upon completion of their contract of employment.

MANILA, Philippines — Call center and outsourcing services provider TELUS International Philippines (TIP) has signed a new partnership with Asia Pacific College (APC) for the TELUS International University (TIU).

MANILA — Former employees of national carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) trooped to the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) on Monday to assail the agency’s approval to the outsourcing program that sidelined 2,300 workers last year.

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MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang conceded yesterday it would take time for any economic gains to trickle down the poor but stressed stop gap measures like the conditional cash transfer program and transport subsidy had been put in place to ensure the public could cope with higher prices of commodities and fuel.