Monthly Archives: May 2017

By Edith Regalado (The Philippine Star), May 2, 2017 DAVAO CITY, Philippines – President Duterte vowed to fulfill his campaign promise to put a stop to labor contractualization but asked that he be given more time, as it would not be that easy, especially in certain industries.

By JP LOPEZ, Malaya, May 2, 2017 THOUSANDS of protesters from moderate groups to militant organizations marked the first Labor Day under President Duterte’s watch by marching under the scorching sun yesterday to demand a nationwide P750 minimum wage and an end to all kinds of contractualization.

by Klaus Schwab, 14 Jan 2016 We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We do not yet know just how it will unfold,…

By: the Inquirer Bureaus, Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 02, 2017 Duterte Cabinet members join Labor Day protestNews For the first time in recent history, the Labor Day rally in Davao City, hometown of President Duterte, its longtime mayor, had no effigy of the incumbent president.

MILLION-PESO LOAN PACKAGE By: Jovic Yee, Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 02, 2017 Officials of the Department of Transportation and Department of Finance signed on Sunday an agreement for a financing mechanism for drivers who would be affected by the government’s jeepney modernization program.

by Ashley Rodriguez, May 2, 2017 People in Britain are more scared of the artificial intelligence embedded in household devices and self-driving cars than in systems used for predictive policing or diagnosing diseases. That’s according to a survey commissioned by the Royal Society, which is billed as the first in-depth look at how the public…

by Nir Kshetri, May 1, 2017 Big Wall Street companies are using a complicated technology called blockchain to further increase the already lightning-fast speed of international finance. But it’s not just the upper crust of high finance who can benefit from this new technology.

May 1, 2017 5 Ways the Future of Work Is Changing Last summer, Adobe researchers surveyed over 2,000 office employees and nine thought leaders on the evolving definition of work. Through this exercise, researches uncovered several interesting insights about the future of work, including the most effective “carrots” used to motivate employees.

Temporary hiring blamed for sluggish consumer demand by Yoshiaki Nohara, Bloomberg, May 1, 2017 Japan’s tightest labor market in decades shows signs of reversing a long shift toward the hiring of temporary workers. The number of full-time, permanent workers is rising for the first time since the global financial crisis, outpacing growth in temporary jobs…

If you have listed a San Francisco place on the home rental site, you’re now required to register with the city or be booted from the platform. by Dara Kerr, May 1, 2017 After nearly a year of legal tussles, Airbnb and the city of San Francisco have made nice. The home rental company settled…

By: Frances Mangosing, INQUIRER.net, May 01, 2017 There were 800,000 less jobless Filipinos in the first quarter of 2017 but optimism that there will be more jobs in the next 12 months fell during the same period.

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By: Jerome Aning, Nestor P. Burgos Jr., Philippine Daily Inquirer , May 01, 2017 Thousands of workers and other protesters, including at least 8,000 in Western Visayas, will join Labor Day rallies on Monday to press for higher wages, job security and an end to labor contractualization.

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL By: Jocelyn R. Uy, Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 01, 2017 Grade 10 graduates from private schools will get a chance at availing the senior high school (SHS) voucher for the new school year. The Department of Education (DepEd) has announced that it was reopening the application for the SHS voucher program from May…