Monthly Archives: December 2016

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), Dec. 22, 2016 According to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello, one of the provisions of the new DOLE department order (DO) to be implemented in early 2017 is the prohibition against sub-contracting. File photo MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to finally stop the…

Tayyiba Iram, Dec 22, 2016 Hiring managers rarely have the time or resources to look at each résumé closely, and they typically spend about six seconds on their initial fit/no fit decision. If you want to pass that test, you need to have some solid qualifications — and the perfect resume to highlight them. Here…

By Paolo Romero (The Philippine Star), Dec. 21, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Senate has included a provision in the proposed P3.35-trillion national budget canceling the need for patients seeking treatment in hospitals to present a Philippine Heath Insurance (PhilHealth) card as a condition for availing themselves of benefits from the state health insurer.

By Francis Elevado (The Philippine Star), Dec. 21, 2016 CAMARINES NORTE, Philippines – Three miners drowned in Labo, Camarines Norte on Sunday. Reports reaching Camp Wenceslao Vinzons Sr. identified the fatalities as Florentino Mallanes, 47; Mark Alvin Echano, 22, and Joel Cena 36, resident of Barangay Dallas.

QUEZON CITY, Dec 21 — In its aim to strengthen the Philippines’ commitment into eliminating 1 Million Children from Child Labor, the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), chaired by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the Department of Education (DepEd), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources…

By Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), Dece. 21, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Foreign investment pledges approved by the country’s seven investment promotion agencies (IPAs) fell 45 percent in the third quarter this year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported yesterday.

Ban spoke the same day the Security Council unanimously approved its first-ever draft resolution on human trafficking in conflict situations. By: AP, Dec. 21, 2016 Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Tuesday on all countries to investigate and prosecute cases of human trafficking and said the most vulnerable victims are women, children and refugees caught…

Loss of earning capacity By Jose C. Sison, Philstar, Dec. 21, 2016 The heirs of a victim who died due to the recklessness and negligence of other people are entitled not only to indemnity for his death, moral and exemplary damages and attorneys’ fees but also for compensation due to loss of capacity to earn.…

MANILA, Dec. 21 (PIA)–The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has made major advancements in eliminating child labor including its worst forms in the seven months of the Duterte administration. “We have made significant strides in curbing child labor in poor communities, especially its worst forms,” DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III said during a recent…

By Ellen Wulfhorst / Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dec. 21, 2016 NEW YORK — The face of human trafficking is changing with more children and men falling prey and more victims trapped in forced labor than a decade ago, the United Nations reported on Wednesday, Dec. 21.

by Gulf Times, Dec. 21, 2016 The State of Qatar has reaffirmed that it will continue to support UN Security Council’s efforts to put an end to the phenomenon of trafficking in persons in conflict-affected areas, and to achieve international peace and security in the region and the world.

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http://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2016/12/20/most-asean-markets-fall-after-yellen-comments-philippines-over-10-month-low/ Dec 20, 2016 SINGAPORE: Most Southeast Asian stock markets fell on Tuesday after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave an upbeat view of the jobs market, strengthening the rate hike outlook for next year.

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/rising-risks-to-asean-from-messy-brexit-talks Dec 20, 2016 The shock Brexit vote on June 23 has so far generated more uncertainty than actual disruption to the global economic and political environment.

By Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco – Dec 20, 2016 Conclusion AS the Philippines emerged as one of the countries with accelerating rates of new cases of persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), staging more efficient information dissemination on HIV is gnarly for health authorities.

Dec. 20, 2016 President Duterte’s bloody war on drugs is striking fear in the hearts of the people he wants to protect from the evils of illegal narcotics.

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By Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), Dec. 19, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Economic managers tweaked the government’s P45-48 to $1 foreign exchange assumption amid the weakening of regional currencies against the greenback due to the much anticipated rate hike by the US Federal Reserve.

By Joey Concepcion (The Philippine Star), Dec. 19, 2016 In Go Negosyo, inclusive growth is our goal. Our advocacy is to bring prosperity to all. In the past months, we have been collaborating with Department of Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol to bring growth to the agricultural sector and the province of Sulu.

By Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star), Dec. 19, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Earnings around the world have dropped to their lowest level since 2012, according to a new report of the International Labor Organization (ILO).

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by James Watkins, Dec. 19, 2016, http://www.ozy.com/provocateurs/the-man-behind-the-most-important-chart-of-2016/74283 Because he can explain the appeal of Trump, Bernie, Brexit and all the rest of it in one chart. You may know the name Thomas Piketty. His work launched him to prime time as the “rock star economist”; his sultry French accent and general attractiveness, of course, helped.…

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), Dec. 18, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) urged the information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) industry to “upskill” its talent pool to fully take advantage of the growth opportunities in the next six years.

By Prinz Magtulis (philstar.com), Dec. 18, 2016 MANILA, Philippines — Economic managers have sounded the alarm on the looming approval of a pension hike for Social Security System (SSS) retirees and are now proposing a higher member contribution than what their predecessors envisioned.

By Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), Dec. 18, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) sees a sustained four percent growth in cash remittances next year amid strong demand for skilled Filipino workers abroad.

When we look back, 2016 could be the year we started to live longer, better and beyond Earth. by Eric Mack, cnet.com, Dec 18, 2016 It’s been hard to miss all the ink and pixels declaring 2016 the year of humanity’s discontent. That judgment’s tough to deny in the realm of geopolitics, given awful conflicts…

3 injured as platform in Manila construction site collapses

By: Kristine Felisse Mangunay, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dec. 16, 2016 Three construction workers were rushed to the hospital after the platform they were on while working on a building in Manila collapsed on Friday.