https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/heres-why-europes-approach-to-the-migrant-crisis-wont-work?utm_content=buffer95d16&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Between January and November 2015, approximately 1.5 million migrants reached the European Union through the Mediterranean Sea. This high level of migration continued in 2016.
By Artemio A. Dumlao (philstar.com), November 23, 2016 ITOGON, Philippines – Three small scale miners choked to death inside a mine tunnel in Itogon, Benguet Monday afternoon.
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5.18.2016, Manila. – Some 1,000 trade union leaders (41% women) reiterated workers’ call for passage of stronger, better, and workable labor law to ensure security of tenure and constructive industrial relations in the country amidst pervasive use of contractual and precarious employment arrangements.
Nov. 21, 2016 — The country’s Regional Tripartite Wage and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs) have dutifully issued minimum wages in their regions, but they have taken the line of least resistance and adopted the very low road to development. They pride themselves in having mandated wages not too far from regional poverty levels. They have been…
By Ronilo Dagos, Abante, November 22, 2016 Patay ang isang lalaki makaraang ito ay malunod sa isang water tank sa Barangay Ipilan, Tayabas City, Quezon kaamakalawa ng hapon.
By Ami Miyazaki and Tom Westbrook, November 22, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tpp-idUSKBN13H0OT?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=58349de704d3011591ab15c0&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter An ambitious Asia-Pacific trade pact linking the United States and 11 countries lay in tatters on Tuesday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would kill the deal on his first day in office on Jan. 20.
By Drew Robb, November 22, 2016, http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/call-centers/call-center-best-practices.html Having the right technology and procedures in place can help contact centers improve productivity and customer engagement. Call centers (also known as “contact centers” these days due to the addition of email, text and video into their repertoire) could well be one of the most complex areas for…
By MARTHA ABIGAEL M. VINEGAS, http://www.jobsnhire.com/articles/48457/20161121/call-center-hiring-what-usually-take-applicant-land-bpo-job.htm BEIJING, CHINA – AUGUST 29: (CHINA OUT) Workers answer telephone inquires about the recruitment of Beijing Olympic Volunteers, at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Call Center on August 29, 2006 in Beijing, China. Beijing has officially launched a recruitment drive for 100,000 Olympic volunteers, which aims to help the Chinese…
By Ric Sapnu (The Philippine Star), November 21, 2016 BALANGA CITY, Bataan, Philippines – Officials of Bataan and the Catholic diocese of Balanga are opposed to reviving and operating the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Morong town.
By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), November 21, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Shortage in construction workers is weighing down private building activities nationwide, real estate consultancy firm Colliers International said.
By Rea Cu, Businessmirror, NOVEMBER 21, 2016 ACCORDING to data from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the government has allotted P1.34 trillion for programs under the social-services sector, which covers housing, livelihood and community-driven projects, and the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program.
by: Tempo Online, November 20, 2016 VILLASIS, Pangasinan – Authorities arrested 24 Chinese who were found during a raid of four factories allegedly manufacturing fake cigarettes in Barangay Unzad here Friday.
Maya Kosoff / Business Insider @businessinsider, Nov. 20, 2015 Apple is known for being one of the most challenging and exciting places to work, so it’s not surprising to learn that getting a job there is no easy task.
By Raymund Catindig (The Philippine Star), November 19, 2016 TUGUEGARAO CITY, Philippines – A lineman died and another was injured when they accidentally touched a live wire while repairing power lines toppled by Super Typhoon Lawin in Barangay Natappian in West Solana, Cagayan yesterday.
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/apec-ceo-summit/2016/key-findings/regulatory-conditions.html Regulatory conditions are always a factor when a business takes on the ultimate risk to invest directly in another economy… The real calculation is just how much of a factor given other dynamics that affect business growth and profitability. In this study, based in part on PwC’s Survey of over 1,100 business leaders in…
Tae Kim | @firstadopter, 18 November 2016, CNBC.com From higher fiscal spending to rising inflation, Goldman Sachs’ economic research team gave investors its favorite 2017 predictions for the markets and global economies Thursday. Many of the investment bank’s projections were directly impacted by the surprising election of Donald Trump and his stated economic policies.
By Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star), November 18, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Despite criticisms over alleged human rights violations committed in connection with the anti-drug campaign, a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed that a majority or 74 percent of Filipinos were satisfied with the way the government was promoting human rights.
By Prinz Magtulis (The Philippine Star), November 18, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS) now wants to have a first say on financing part of public private partnership (PPP) projects to be bid out by the government.
By Iris Gonzales (The Philippine Star), November 18, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – DMCI Mining Corp. has reduced its workforce by 62 percent in the nine months to September this year, parent firm DMCI Holdings Inc. said yesterday.
By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), November 18, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s largest business group, sees more regularization of workers in line with the administration’s drive to stop illegal contractualization.
By Jose C. Sison (The Philippine Star), November 18, 2016 It is about time for us to erase the delusion that some of our countrymen denominated as “elitist” are trying to put down or belittle the intellectual capacity of the mass of our common people mostly comprising Duterte’s supporters. It is quite divisive and discordant…
CTALK By Cito Beltran (The Philippine Star), November 18, 2016 The Department of Finance (DOF) is recommending the scrapping of non-essential privileges or discounts given to senior citizens such as discounts on airfare, hotels, with Secretary Sonny Dominguez calling it “a small sacrifice” to fund nation building. Most senior citizens have paid their dues and…
Nov. 16, 2016 – CTALK by Cito Beltan, Philippine Star – Don’t look now but the DOLE is clearly doing the “One step forward – Two step backward” dance concerning the issue on abolishing contractualization. It won’t surprise me one bit if the DOLE decides to dance with the “contractors” and push for a compromise…
by Andrew Mayeda, Craig Torres, November 18, 2016, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-18/blah-blah-blah-a-renowned-economist-sums-up-the-state-of-macro?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social Paul Romer says he really hadn’t planned to trash macroeconomics as a math-obsessed pseudoscience. Or infuriate countless colleagues. It just sort of happened.
By Edwin Balasa, Abante, November 18, 2016 Patay ang isang obrero matapos itong malibing ng buhay sa malalim na hukay ng ginagawang subdivision kamakalawa ng hapon sa Naga City, Camarines Sur.
by Siegfrid Alegado, Cecilia Yap, November 17, 2016, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/philippine-growth-quickens-to-7-1-on-duterte-s-spending-spree Nation seen as among fastest-expanding in the world until 2018 Outsourcing, remittances help guard against global risks The Philippine economy grew at its fastest pace in three years last quarter, underscoring the nation’s resilience to global risks as investment surged and consumers spent more. Stocks gained.
by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb, NOVEMBER 17, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/11/the-simple-economics-of-machine-intelligence?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=harvardbiz The year 1995 was heralded as the beginning of the “New Economy.” Digital communication was set to upend markets and change everything. But economists by and large didn’t buy into the hype. It wasn’t that we didn’t recognize that something changed. It was…
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