Monthly Archives: October 2015

The new levels of the minimum allowable wage and food allowance will apply to all foreign domestic helper contracts signed on or after October 1

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines submitted to the United Nations on Thursday its initial commitments to address climate change including a 70-percent reduction of carbon emissions by 2030.

MANILA, Philippines – Reports that the government has failed to implement laws against child labor are baseless, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

With just about one more month to go before the heads of 21 member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meet in Metro Manila, the atmosphere in the metro is slowly getting into the frenzy of preparations for the two-day event.

Women remain underrepresented across organizations—especially at senior levels of leadership—a new survey by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey finds. September 2015 From entry level to the C-suite, women are underrepresented at US corporations, less likely to advance than men, and face more barriers to senior leadership. In fact, at the rate of progress of the past three…

Come ASEAN integration by yearend, the Philippines will have the most uninviting tax system in the region MANILA, Philippines – The 19-year-old personal and corporate income tax systems of the Philippines are the “most uninviting and out of date” among the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies, several economists said.