World leaders urged to act as anger over inequality reaches a ‘tipping point’ by Michael Savage Policy editor, Apr 7, 2018 The world’s richest 1% are on course to control as much as two-thirds of the world’s wealth by 2030, according to a shocking analysis that has lead to a cross-party call for action.
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By GERARD NAVAL, Apr 06, 2018 JOLLIBEE Foods Corp. (JFC) may have to regularize up to 50,000 more contractual employees, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said yesterday.
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By Nelson S. Badilla, Businessmirror, Apr 5, 2018 Citing the order handed down recently by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to Jolibee Food Corp., a labor group advocating the end of job contractualization, or endo, expressed belief that President Duterte, through the DOLE, can do a much better job in regularizing more contractual…
By: Daxim L. Lucas – Reporter / @daxinq Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 05, 2018 The central bank has finally hinted at acting against the accelerating pace of price increases in the country, hours after the government announced that the March inflation rate blew past official estimates to hit a five-year high.
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By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 05, 2018 The Philippines may soon lose its eligibility for a trade perk from the European Union (EU) which is aimed at poorer nations, in view of a report that says the country may reach upper middle income status in 2019.
By: Ben O. de Vera, INQ Inquirer Business, Apr 05, 2018 Consumer prices rose 4.3 percent in March or above the government’s 2-4 percent target range for 2018 on the back of a double-digit jump in prices of “sin” products last month.
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by Rey Gamboa (The Philippine Star) – Apr 3, 2018 The face of the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is one that has shown the fastest change in the last couple of years, and this is largely due to the equally fast changing world of information technology and developments in artificial intelligence.
by ABS-CBN News, Apr 02 2018 Walang kapangyarihan ang ehekutibong sangay ng gobyerno para tapusin ang kalakalan ng “endo” o “end of contract,” ayon mismo sa isang opisyal ng Palasyo.
It’s women’s month!
“Support women every day of the year!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and Made-in-the-Philippines
Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
Mar 4— Employee Appreciation Day
Mar 15 — World Consumer Rights Day
Mar 18 — Global Recycling Day
Mar 21 — International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mar 23 — International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
Mar 25 — International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mar 27 — Earth Hour
