Monthly Archives: October 2015

      I would like to personally extend my condolences to the family of Senator Herrera and the TUCP. I pay tribute to him not only as a great labor leader who dedicated his life to improving and defending the lives of Filipino workers, but also as a Solidarity Center partner to implement worker…

(UPDATE2, – 9:20 p.m.) MANILA – Former labor leader and member of an independent commission that probed the 1983 Ninoy Aquino assassination, Ernesto “Boy” F. Herrera, who as senator later authored the 1995 Migrant Workers’ Act, died Thursday at the age of 73.

The Philippines is home to over 100 million Filipinos, yet there are only 690 psychiatrists and around 1,000 nurses working in psychiatric care

A new study suggests that by the end of the century, parts of the Middle East may become uninhabitable for human beings. Extreme heatwaves could create conditions in several Middle Eastern cities that would exceed the threshold of what human beings can endure. Scientists used what is known as ‘wet bulb temperature’ (WBT), the combination…

All public junior high school students who have completed Grade 10 are qualified voucher recipients and shall receive the full voucher value. Grade 10 Education Service Contracting (ESC) grantees from participating schools are also qualified voucher recipients and will be given 80% of the voucher value.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino signed into law yesterday the bill amending the Public Employment Service Act of 1999 to further help people in rural areas secure jobs more easily.

MANILA – A student of Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila got a perfect score in the 2015 Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC). Grade 8 student Andres Rico Gonzales, 13, is one of the 42 students worldwide who got perfect scores among the 300,000 participants from 40 countries in this year’s AMC.

Migration remains ‘essentially an urban affair’ according to a new report published by the International Organisation for Migration. The World Migration Report 2015 – Migrants and Cities: New Partnerships to Manage Mobility estimates that there are 232 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants around the world. Nearly 50% of all international migrants reside…

THE Aquino administration likes to brag that the business environment has improved remarkably since it took over almost six years ago. That may be true but the plight of workers has not.

The Philippines’ business process outsourcing (BPO) sector will continue to thrive in the coming years. This was the prediction made by CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) Philippines Inc. Rick M. Santos, chair and chief executive officer who founded the company two decades ago.

Ms. Helen Orande is a member of ASEAN CSR Network’s Board of trustees and is also the Executive Director of the League of Corporate Foundations. Here, Ms. Orande talks about how CSR in the Philippines has evolved past philanthropy and charity. to where it is done because it is the right thing to do. She…

Opening up more opportunities to jobseekers, the Department of Labor and Employment will be conducting nationwide job fairs until the end of 2015, to be hosted by Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs).

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 October) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Region 12 has stepped up its interventions to facilitate the tuna industry players’ compliance with international labor standards.

Filipinos continue to seek credit from loan sharks and other informal lenders than go to banks for their financial needs, according to the results of a World Bank survey.

After Election Day, will the country be able to reclaim territory from dynasties, or will the bleeding continue? Last week thousands of people trooped to the Comelec to file their certificates of candidacy (COC), many of them vying for seats in local offices where members of their families hold monopolies of power. After the dust…

In the recent Asia pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting held in Iloilo the first week of October, the two main subjects under discussion were disaster risk reduction and the increasingly important role of women in Southeast Asian economies. Founded in 1989, with 21 members, APEC’s challenge today is to develop more micro, small, and medium…

The sound fiscal reforms that had improved the economic stature of the Philippines started during the term of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Moody’s Investors Service said in its latest report on the country. The report also reflected the worries of Filipino economists about government underspending limiting the country’s growth prospects.

BUTUAN CITY – Officials of the Department of Health (DoH) here are alarmed over the rising cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in Caraga region.

On October 1, 2015, President Benigno S. Aquino III signed the appointment papers of 27 public servants to various executive offices.

In August 2015, personal remittances from overseas Filipino workers totalled $2.3 billion, bringing the total personal remittances to $17.9 billion. For the first eight months of 2015, cash remittances registered a growth of 4.1 percent year-on-year to $16.2 billion.

I had the pleasure of recently attending the first graduation ceremony of over 500 young Filipinos involved in JobStart – a program designed to help out-of-school youth prepare themselves for the job market by giving them enhanced career guidance services, life skills training, technical training, and work experience. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has stopped the construction of a power plant in Iloilo City due to an accident that resulted in the death of a worker.

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The media mogul behind Forbes Media says the growth in the Philippines will be sustainable should it continue to make reforms MANILA, Philippines – With several economies tumbling, the Philippines will continue to remain stable and strong should it reform its tax system and improve its infrastructure, said the chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media.…

Lawmakers threw yesterday all support to the P1-billion funding allocated by the Aquino administration in the next year’s proposed national budget to curb growing cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the country.

The Mactan Economic Zone 1 (MEZ 1) was finally declared labor laws compliant industrial zone after it failed to meet the requisites, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

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Even with the protection of Batas Kasambahay, a lot of domestic workers are still underpaid, overworked, and deprived of benefits provided under the law MANILA, Philippines – Anna tiptoes around the house and moves from one room to another with a laundry basket full of clothes. She mops the floors, dusts the shelves, refills the…

A 2015 Quality of Death study index has listed the Philippines as one of the worst places to die, next to Iraq and Bangladesh.