Monthly Archives: June 2015

While it is clear that major transformation is coming to the manufacturing sector, few manufacturers are truly transforming their business models, operating structure, or supply chain in order to survive the battle.

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The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has issued a summary of an inquiry initiated on the basis of information received in 2008 from three women’s rights NGOs in the Philippines.

LONDON – Lebanon has launched a 24-hour hotline for female domestic workers to allow them to report abuse or mistreatment and receive help.

IF you want to understand how the business cycle works, look no farther than the call-center business in the Philippines. If you want to learn how the business cycle functions most successfully without government interference, check the timeline of the Philippines’s business-process outsourcing (BPO) business.

From the Department of Social Welfare and Development Parental abuse victims’ recovery is of high priority with the DSWD; extensive steps are being taken to ensure their care and well-being.

What are the trends in Foreign Direct Investment in 2016? Each year since 1998, consulting firm A.T. Kearney sends a survey to its corporate clients to track the impact of likely political, economic and regulatory changes on the foreign direct investment intentions of top business executives.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has thrown its support behind two House bills seeking to exclude from income taxes all overtime and graveyard shift differential pay received by salaried employees, including the country’s 1.1 million business process outsourcing (BPO) workers who perform jobs all day and all night.

I was coaching a real ‘high flyer’ the other week and she felt that the trust between her and the owners of the business she runs (in the UK) had been broken. Part of the reason was that they had not done what they said they would and had not honoured their promises, however another…

It’s often said that Indian Railways is the largest employer of people in the world, and if not Indian Railways, then the UK’s National Health Service.

Philippines has become ASEAN’s moral compass through its commitment to democracy, the rule of law, good governance, freedom of speech and association, economic transparency, and international law

MANILA, Philippines – A United Nations body has awarded the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for its efforts in promoting economic and financial education to the families of overseas Filipino workers.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine insurance market remains the smallest among the five largest economies in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean-5) in terms of assets and premiums, based on a recent study of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

THE number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive overseas Filipino workers is expected to top the 4,000-mark this year, and the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) slammed the Senate on Saturday for the delay in the passage of a new program to suppress the disease.

MANILA – Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the nation’s largest democratic labor center, with member-federations forming a General Council, has thrown its support behind two House bills seeking to exclude from income taxes all overtime and graveyard shift differential pay received by salaried employees, including the country’s 1.1 million business process outsourcing (BPO)…

http://www.gsis.gov.ph/gsis-hikes-credit-limit-extends-payment-terms-for-new-consoloan-program/, June 19, 2015 Active members of state pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will enjoy a higher credit limit and longer repayment terms beginning this July 1 under an improved consolidated loan program.

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — After over a month of suspending operations, the Philippine National Railways (PNR) conducted a test run of the commuter line from stations Tutuban to Buendia Friday morning (June 19).

A new guide released by the Food and Agriculture Organization aims to help in reducing the number of child workers all over the world MANILA, Philippines – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in partnership with the Humboldt University of Berlin, recently released a guide that aims to make sure anti-child labor measures are included…

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Office cleaning company Managed by Q raises $15 million and expands to San Francisco. As I listened to Dan Teran describe how his startup is working to provide its employees with a career and middle class perks like health benefits, it all sounded almost too good to be true. Almost.

The latest round of male leaders to commit to the UN Women HeForShe campaign are stepping outside the gender parity box. Are you ready for Gender Equality Technicians? Could creating an army of “Gender Equality Technicians” or prompting companies to do annual, firm-wide salary gap surveys bring about real gender equality?

Staying in a job where success is limited could be harmful to your career. MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for: Why is it important for women to take risks in business? is written by Lauren Stiller Rikleen, president…

In the 1970s, in order to address an escalating unemployment rate and balance of payments crisis, the Philippine government adopted a comprehensive range of policies that, among other things, systematically encouraged the export of contract labor from throughout the country. The program, developed during the long military dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, was rationalized as a…

HONG KONG – The multi-million dollar domestic worker recruitment business is pushing thousands of women into crippling debt by charging hefty fees for finding jobs, the co-founder of an employment agency said on Tuesday as he called for an overhaul of the industry.

There is a marked increase in the number of physical abuse cases reported to the Mission, from 3.6% of total reported cases in 2013 to 9% in 2014 HONG KONG – The worldwide outrage over the abuse of Indonesian domestic worker Erwiana Sulistyaningsih might have made Hong Kong law enforcers pay closer attention to reports…

Filipino food once again took the spotlight by making it to a recent international poll. In a Facebook poll, CNN asked “Which destination has the world’s best food?”

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international policy group that monitors and analyzes 34 countries, recently tweeted the following chart:

Dear PAO, My aunt is working as a household helper. Recently, her family in the province had a problem so she has been in constant communication with them. Since she does not have her own mobile phone, she made use of the landline telephone of her employer. Regrettably, she did not ask permission from her…

MANILA – While attending the 104th International Labor Conference in Geneva, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz received very good news from the Philippines: the deployment of household service workers (HSWs) has declined drastically in the first five months of 2015.