Monthly Archives: February 2017

Uninclusive, Precarious, a virtual form Modern Slavery Workers’ mobilization against contractualization and precarious work 6.28.2016, Manila. — Some 326 union leaders, members and their families –perched along the historical wall of Intramuros, under close watch by a throng of police –bellowed a unified cry for justice. They called for an end to exploitation propagated by…

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Feb 28, 2017 Rights groups in the Philippines are pushing for better support for victims of human trafficking. They say victims are often treated as criminals, and cases can remain tied up in the courts for years. Watch the video here.

by Julito G. Rada, Manila Standard, Feb 28, 2017 The Philippines needs to attract more foreign direct investments to achieve the gross domestic product growth target of 7 percent to 8 percent this year, DBS Bank of Singapore said Tuesday.

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by Andrea Willige, Feb 28, 2017 The idea of travelling around town in a self-driving car has captured the world’s imagination. In addition to promising more relaxed commuting, autonomous driving is regarded as a solution to everything from traffic congestion and lack of parking spaces to accident prevention and reduced carbon emissions.

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by Olivia Goldhill, Feb 27, 2017 Look at a photo of yourself as a teenager and, mistaken fashion choices aside, it’s likely you see traces of the same person with the same personality quirks as you are today. But whether or not you truly are the same person over a lifetime—and what that notion of…

by Arra B. Francia, Businessworld, Feb 23, 2017 THE information technology (IT) sector still offer the highest salaries for junior executives and supervisors in the country, according to online employment portal JobStreet Philippines.

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by Elijah Joseph C. Tubayan, Businessworld, Feb 27, 2017 THE BUDGET department sees more than a tenth of general civil servants will be affected by the proposed fat-trimming in government agencies within the first year of implementation. In its report to the Senate committee of civil service last week, the Department of Budget and Management…

by Danica M. Uy, Businessworld, Feb 27, 2017 THE GOVERNMENT’S representatives will be meeting with delegates from the European Union (EU) in September for the second round of free trade agreement (FTA) talks.

BY CRISPIN R. ARANDA, Manila Times, Feb 27, 2017 THE business process outsourcing industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. Call center agents speak fluent, neutral-accented English. BPO employees are paid less than their US counterparts. Dollar earnings rival that of remittances. Citizens of this country top the list of source countries for immigrants and visitors.

By: Maila Ager, INQINQUIRER.net, Feb 27, 2017 On Senator Manny Pacquiao’s motions, Liberal Party (LP) senators on Monday were stripped of their positions and committee chairmanships.

High-income earners shoulder only 28.4% of the tax burden, and it has a bigger gap between the taxes they owe government and the amount actually collected from them Rappler.com, Feb 27, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Low-income earners are bearing most of the country’s tax burden, according to data from the Department of Finance (DOF).

by Shelly Palmer, Feb 26, 2017 Oxford University researchers have estimated that 47 percent of U.S. jobs could be automated within the next two decades. But which white-collar jobs will robots take first?

By Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), Feb 25, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Foreign investment pledges approved by the country’s seven investment promotion agencies (IPA) declined 10.7 percent to P219 billion in 2016 from P245.2 billion in 2015, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported yesterday.

By: Miguel R. Camus, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb 24, 2017 The Philippines ranked near the bottom worldwide in a measure of mobile internet speed and availability, based on a crowdsourced survey. The results from United Kingdom-based OpenSignal, which claims to collect data from millions of smartphones worldwide, showed that the country’s “overall” mobile speed from…

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GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), Feb 24, 2017 Two years ago when a vacancy occurred in a Hong Kong firm’s board of directors, they appointed an algorithm. The robot called Vital gets no executive pay, and is fed only large amounts of data. In microseconds it picks up on market trends “not immediately…

by Raynan F. Javil, Feb 24, 2017 THE NUMBER of jobless Filipinos hardly changed last year from 2015, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey that bared a fourth-quarter reading that was the worst in two years. Fourth-quarter optimism about job prospects for the succeeding 12 months, however, was at its peak since this…

Brand strategist purportedly worked overtime with pneumonia By Patrick Coffee|February 23, 2017 A young brand strategist with Ogilvy & Mather Philippines died last weekend after purportedly working overtime while suffering from pneumonia.