by Manila Standard, Sep 21, 2018 Starting October, the Government Service Insurance System will offer a 100-percent waiver of unpaid penalties and surcharges to housing buyers and borrowers with past due accounts and are willing to settle their housing obligations in full. The deadline for the submission of application to the condonation program is on…
by Manila Standard, Sep 21, 2018 Pag-IBIG Fund is offering a one-time opportunity for delinquent and unregistered employers who were previously disqualified from availing themselves of the Fund’s penalty condonation programs to settle their obligations.
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by Gillian M. Cortez, BUsinessWorld, Sept 21, 2018 THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is pushing for the immediate approval of legislation allowing more flexible work arrangements to take advantage of improving technology.
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The employer of Agnes Mancilla, 35, an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia, allegedly makes her work 20 hours a day and gives her only coffee for meals Paterno Esmaquel II, Sept 20, 2018, Rappler MANILA, Philippines – Officials in Saudi Arabia filed a torture case against a local employer who allegedly forced an overseas…
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HIGHER WAGES, NO MORE ENDO, MORE PARTICIPATION, NO GBV, END INEQUALITY! Published by anna Date posted on April 29, 2019 15 June 2018 — “HIGHER WAGES, NO MORE ENDO, MORE PARTICIPATION, NO GBV, END INEQUALITY!” were the recurring themes in the National Trade Union Conferences on Employment Security and Constructive Industrial Relations with the theme:…
by Diana Lat, ABS-CBN News, Sep 18, 2018 Daanan ng human trafficking ang Palawan, ayon sa Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) na pinangungunahan ng Department of Justice (DOJ).
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By William Horobin, Sept 18, 2018 Will robots take your job? The answer depends on where you live. The threat varies “strikingly” between countries and regions, with as many as 40 percent of jobs at “high risk” in Western Slovakia and just 4 percent in the area around Oslo, the OECD said Tuesday. According to…
— By Miron Lulic, founder and CEO at SuperMoney More than 1 million reverse mortgages, or Home Equity Conversion Mortgages, have been sold since the government program that insures them started in 1990.
There are tragedies in a new list prepared by LinkedIn. Some of them are in the section that shows which jobs have grown in this era of artificial intelligence. By Chris Matyszczyk for Technically Incorrect | Sept 18, 2018
by Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Inquirer, Sep 18, 2018 Sugar-based food products made here in the Philippines might lose to their imported counterparts from Southeast Asia partly due to the prohibitive price of domestic sugar.
By Elijah Felice Rosales, BusinessMirror, Sept 18, 2018 The semiconductors industry group said one of the country’s top export revenue earners could be forced to lay off 140,000 workers once fiscal incentives are rationalized under the second round of tax reforms.
by Raymund Catindig (The Philippine Star) – Sept 17, 2018 TUGUEGARAO, Cagayan – Nearly 100 people are feared dead in a landslide that buried a mining shelter in Itogon, Benguet during the onslaught of Typhoon Ompong on Saturday.
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By RACHEL KING, Sept 17, 2018 Problems with salary negotiations? Workplace politics? Sunday scaries? (Yes, the struggle is real.) If any of these things are a problem for you, don’t worry—at least in the sense that you’re not alone. These are among the top 10 challenges that employees in the United States are facing right…
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By Jeremy Kahn, Sept 17, 2018 Machines and automated software will be handling fully half of all workplace tasks within seven years, a new report from the World Economic Forum forecasts. But the group said technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and precision medicine, could create more jobs than they threaten.
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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.
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