As part of its efforts to support the “modern Filipino working woman,” the Department of Labor and Employment on Tuesday pushed for breastfeeding stations in more workplaces.
The Social Security System (SSS), the pension fund for workers in the private sector, started the New Year with the bad news that the Aquino administration had summarily rejected calls to stop the increase in SSS and Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) premiums.
MANILA, Philippines – Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) has revised its 2014 economic growth outlook for the Philippines to 7.3 percent after the gross domestic product (GDP) zoomed by a better-than-expected 7.2 percent last year.
MANILA, Philippines – A consumer watchdog warned the public yesterday against buying trumpo or tops, saying that most of those available on the market contain lead and other poisonous substances.
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Good evening. It is a great honor to be invited to deliver this year’s Dimbleby Lecture, and I would like to thank the BBC and the Dimbleby family for so kindly inviting me—and especially David Dimbleby for his warm words of introduction.
MANILA, Philippines – State-run Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) ranked as the top think tank in Southeast Asia and remains one of the best in the world, according to the 2013 Global Go Think Tank Report released by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the University of Pennsylvania.
The 85 richest people in the world have as much wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest persons in the world. It’s hard to choose a single appropriate adjective for this statistic – depressing, frustrating, incredulous, and startling. And what would be the public reaction? It has ranged from anger at such inequality, to cynicism with…
HONG KONG — Working long hours away from home for low pay and little time off, life is tough for foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong, but for some the city has brought sexual liberation unheard of in their home countries.
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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