by Gabriel Cardinoza, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 16, 2019 DAGUPAN CITY — Authorities on Tuesday rescued 22 fish cage workers from their employers in Sual town in Pangasinan province.

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by BBC, Apr 15, 2019 The Chinese billionaire and co-founder of the online shopping giant Alibaba has continued to argue for a 9am to 9pm working day, and a six-day week. The Chinese billionaire and co-founder of the online shopping giant Alibaba has continued to argue for a 9am to 9pm working day, and a…

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By staff | April 14, 2019 New York, NY – Forty activists gathered on Friday, April 12, at The People’s Forum in New York City for an event on the Philippines labor movement hosted by BAYAN USA and Mission to End Modern Day Slavery. The program, titled, “Breaking the Chains: A Sharing on the Philippines…

by KATH M. CORTEZ, Apr 14, 2019 COMPOSTELA VALLEY, Philippines – Red flags are still waving high as hundreds of banana workers remained on strike against the giant Japanese banana firm for its unfair labor practices and the company’s push for government’s immediate intervention on different attacks against the striking workers.

Judge Katrina Nora Buan-Factora does not give merit to the defense of Christian Chaneco that he just did his job as a computer technician and acted upon the order of his clients by Jun A. Malig, Rappler, Apr 13, 2019 ANGELES CITY, Philippines – A Pampanga court has sentenced a 26-year-old computer technician to life…

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by Vito Barcelo and Maricel V. Cruz, Manila Standard, Apr 12, 2019 A Philippine Statistics Authority official on Thursday defended the P10,481 estimated minimum budget needed by a family of five to survive in a month.

By: Ronnel W. Domingo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 12, 2019 The growth in Philippine-bound investments and tourist arrivals from mainland China is expected to help keep the domestic real estate sector along an upward trajectory in 2019, based on positive positions across segments seen so far in the first quarter.

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By: Neil Arwin Mercado, INQUIRER.net, Apr 11, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Private sector employees can now opt to work outside their workplace using telecommunications and computer technologies, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Thursday.

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by Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News, Apr 10, 2019 MANILA (UPDATE 2) — Poverty incidence fell in the first half of 2018 from three years prior, putting the government on track to meet its target of lifting at least 1 million people from poverty every year, official data released Wednesday showed.

By Cai U. Ordinario & Jasper Emmanuel Y. Arcalas, BusinessMirror, Apr 10, 2019 FARMERS may have to wait until the third quarter at the earliest to benefit from a fund that will consist of tariffs from rice imports, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

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by Sunstar, Apr 10, 2019 A 22-YEAR-OLD pregnant woman was caught offering to sexually abuse her six-year-old daughter and her sisters, ages 18 and 21, and stream live the exploitation in exchange for money from an online predator.

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by Edu Punay (The Philippine Star) – Apr 10, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC) has been asked to reopen the $609-million labor case between 2,300 former overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East and American military contractor Kellog-Brown & Root.

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Some of their remedies involve higher taxes for the wealthy that would not disrupt productivity, public-private partnerships, productive government spending. And, yes, they have given or have pledged to give millions for public education, philanthropic foundations. Ray Dalio – [Capitalism] doesn’t need to be destroyed, capitalism does need to present an equal opportunity, which he…