Monthly Archives: January 2017

Sunstar, Jan. 18, 2017 THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) released Wednesday a long list of jobs related to agriculture and livestock farming, where minors are prohibited from getting employed. In a statement, the Dole said employers in the agriculture and livestock farming industry should take note on where they should not employ children…

by Lorraine Chow, Jan. 17, 2017 U.S. solar employs more workers than any other energy industry, including coal, oil and natural gas combined, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s second annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report.

Nordic nations dominate the top 15, while South Korea reigns supreme and Russia is dealt a huge blow by Michelle Jamrisko and Wei Lu, Bloomberg, Jan. 17, 2017 There’s something about those Nordic countries. In the battle of ideas, Sweden climbed to No. 2 and Finland cracked into the top five of the 2017 Bloomberg…

by Danica M. Uy, Businessworld, Jan, 17, 2017 THE GOVERNMENT needs to address the quality of jobs available to workers despite the greater availability of work, economists said. On average, underemployment in the Philippines since 2010 has remained steady, with the recent high at 19.3% in 2013. In October 2016 underemployment was 18.0%, rising from…

by Pierre Nanterme, Jan 17, 2017 Today, most of us are seizing commercial opportunities in digital, but new evidence suggests we may be missing an even bigger prize: digital’s social and environmental benefits.

Workers’ group to file raps vs recruiter, firm inside estate by JIGGER J. JERUSALEM, Jan. 17, 2017 CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—Workers who fled allegedly slave-like conditions in Hacienda Luisita are filing charges of human trafficking against their recruiter and the company that runs a sugar mill in the estate owned by the family of former…

By Alex Morales, Bloomberg, Jan. 17, 2017 If you go outdoors you could get hit by lethal hurricanes, floods, tremors and terrorists. Stay inside huddled over your computer and you could lose your data and your identity. And, in the minds of some, there’s no point in going to work: An immigrant has already taken…

Read TUCP’s quick research on the matter here. Trainees in dual training system are considered ‘trainees’, not employees. Trainees are entitled to daily allowances and insurance overage. Trainees are not required to be covered by SSS, PHIC or PagIBIG. As trainees, not employees, they are not entitled to 13th month pay. Bonuses and 14th month…

Read PMAP-TUCP MOU here.

By James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand.

ABS-CBN News, Jan. 16, 2017 MANILA – (UPDATED) The number of Filipinos who consider themselves as poor fell to an annual average of 44 percent in 2016, the lowest since 1987, according to a Social Weather Stations survey released Monday.

Take the doc’s advice to look and feel your best for life by Jessica Smith, http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/dr-ozs-top-10-health-and-fitness-tips-all-time Get Strong, Not Skinny Illness or injury may often be the instigator, but frailty is what kills us, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, cardiothoracic surgeon, author, and host of The Dr. Oz Show. Our bodies can’t recover as well if…

Debunking the meritocratic argument on its own terms By Didier Jacobs and Sam Pizzigati, http://evonomics.com/extreme-inequality-not-driven-merit-wealth/ Defenders of our deeply unequal global economic order had to put in a bit of overtime last month. They had to explain away the latest evidence — from the global charity Oxfam — on how concentrated our world’s wealth has…

By E.J.C. Tubayan, Jan. 16, 2017 THE PHILIPPINES needs to attract more investment from both domestic and foreign sources to achieve the goal of becoming a high-income economy by 2040. National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary, Ernesto M. Pernia said that total investment levels need to rise to 30% of gross domestic product (GDP),…

Alfred Bayle, INQUIRER.net, Jan. 16, 2017 The age of robot butlers is nearly upon us as Panasonic launches a trial run of their indoor delivery robot, HOSPI.

By ACE JUNE RELL S. PEREZ, Sun Star, Jan. 16, 2017 THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) reported that they have reduced end of contractualization (Endo)-related cases in the Philippines by 50 percent as of December 2016. Dole Secretary Silvestre Bello III said Sunday, January 15, with their intensified campaign against unlawful contractual arrangements,…

by SAMEERA HAFIZ, Jan. 16, 2017 Anti-trafficking campaigns can help to tip the scales towards justice, but they will only succeed if they are grounded in the lived experiences of survivors and oriented towards systemic solutions.

Written by Maurice Obstfeld, Jan. 16, 2017 An accumulation of recent data suggests that the global economic landscape started to shift in the second half of 2016. Developments since last summer indicate somewhat greater growth momentum coming into the new year in a number of important economies. Our earlier projection, that world growth will pick…

By Adva Saldinger @deveximpact, Jan. 16, 2017 In an environment where trust in CEOs is dropping, distrust in corporations is growing and the markets with the greatest future opportunities are in emerging economies, a group of business and civil society leaders are calling for business models to radically change and become more socially focused.

By Cai Ordinario, Businessmirror, Jan. 16, 2017 The government’s plan to end endo, or contractualization, could lead to layoffs and greater inequality in the country, according to a study released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).

By Associated Press, Jan. 16, 2017 DAVOS, Switzerland—The gap between the super-rich and the poorest half of the global population is starker than previously thought, with just eight men, from Bill Gates to Michael Bloomberg, owning as much wealth as 3.6 billion people, according to an analysis by Oxfam released on Monday.

By: Tina Arceo-Dumlao, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jan. 15, 2017 The centerpiece public infrastructure program of the Duterte administration just got a big boost with the pledge of the Japanese government to funnel some $8.7 billion in aid and private investments into the Philippines over the next five years, a sign of the continuing strong friendship…

by Scott Santens, Jan. 15, 2017 Read the article here.  

By Associated Press, Jan. 15, 2017 JAKARTA, Indonesia—The waste from discarded electronic gadgets and electrical appliances has reached severe levels in East Asia, posing a growing threat to health and the environment unless safe disposal becomes the norm.

By: Doris Dumlao-Abadilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jan. 14, 2017 Metro Manila is among Asia-Pacific’s most attractive urban hubs for developers and yield-seeking real estate investors this 2017, especially in the office and shopping mall space, based on the latest research on emerging trends in real estate commissioned by Urban Land Institute (ULI) and global advisory…

Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jan. 14, 2017 Many Filipinos still rely on informal channels for their borrowings, while almost two out of every five households use their ATM cards as collateral for borrowings, such that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is urging intensified financial inclusion efforts to bring more borrowers into the formal sector.

By: Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jan. 14, 2017 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have teamed up to ensure a Philippines free of child labor by 2025.

By: Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jan. 14, 2017 Although growth is projected to be sustained in the next six years, London-based consultancy firm Capital Economics sees politics as the “main” risk to the Philippine economy.

By Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star), with Rainier Allan Ronda, Jan. 14, 2017 To boost the fight against child labor, the multi-agency National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) launched yesterday three major initiatives to keep children out of the workplace. File photo MANILA, Philippines – To boost the fight against child labor, the multi-agency National Child…

By: Jovic Yee – Reporter, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jan. 14, 2017 The Philippine government has blocked Internet users from accessing adult websites, just 10 days after a popular porn site found Filipinos to have spent the longest time watching adult content for the third straight year.