By: Pathricia Ann V. Roxas, INQUIRER.net, Mar 04, 2018 Debt collectors who harass delinquent debtors should be punished to end abusive behavior, Senator Grace Poe said Sunday.

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Government official announces the establishment of a job fair to undertake skills profiling of foreign-based Filipinos by Gilbert P. Felongco, Gulfnews, Mar 4, 2018 Manila: The Philippine government is encouraging thousands of overseas foreign workers (OFWs), who lost their jobs or were displaced by events unfolding in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to seek opportunities elsewhere.

by Gutierrez, Angelo, Mar 3, 2018 Manufacturers of canned sardines will ask the government for a price increase because of higher production costs due to the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law.

By Rene Alviar, Philippine News Agency, Mar 3, 2018 MANILA — Filipino nationals engaged in illegal recruitment and human trafficking outside the country can be reached and prosecuted by the long arm of Philippine law, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration chief warned.

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by Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Mar 3, 2018 One of the country’s leading firms in the airconditioning industry could not convince its Japanese parent company to put up a production hub in the Philippines, partly because investors feel they are “not protected” under the constantly changing investment climate.

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by Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inquirer, Mar 2, 2018 CEBU CITY—Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide on Thursday warned about efforts to amend the 1987 Constitution, saying the proponents of federalism were promising a false paradise.

by Karl R. Ocampo, Inquirer, Mar 2, 2018 The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) is trying to find ways to keep the sugar industry alive as more and more farmers shift to working in other industries with better pay.

by Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Inquirer, Mar 2, 2018 Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez defended contractualization, saying it was “not unfair” to workers since the current arrangement provided for more investments, and thus more jobs.

by Ric Fulop, Mar 1, 2018 “Tooling” – the process of designing and engineering the tools that are necessary to manufacture parts – was the essential technology behind the early industrial revolution. It allowed manufactured goods to go from humans to machines and powered the production of complex mechanical inventions like the steam engine.

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by Agence France-Presse, Mar 1, 2018 PARIS — Iraq and the Philippines are the deadliest places for journalists, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

by Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News, Feb 28, 2018 MANILA – Replaced by software, call center agent Ken Santo Domingo switched jobs and considered computer school to ride the automation wave that threatens to displace thousands in the outsourcing industry.

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by Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Inquirer, Feb 28, 2018 New investment pledges in the manufacturing sector plunged last year to almost 50 percent due to the uncertainty brought by the tax reform law, top officials of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said on Wednesday.

by Tina G. Santos, Inquirer, Feb 28, 2018 Labor groups on Tuesday said they would not accept any compromise being pushed by President Rodrigo Duterte on the draft executive order (EO) prohibiting the contractualization of jobs.

By JEFFREY PFEFFER, April 12, 2016 Dan Lyons’ account of his time at the software company HubSpot describes a workplace in which employees are disposable, “treated as if they are widgets to be used up and discarded.” And HubSpot is scarcely unique: The description of Amazon’s work environment is just one of many similar cases.…

By Samuel P. Medenilla, Businessmirror, Feb 27, 2018 Labor groups may not be able to get their preferred version of an executive order (EO) on job contractualization, which they expect President Duterte to sign in a forthcoming Palace meeting scheduled next month.

by ABS-CBN News, Feb 27, 2018 Authorities have rescued a three-year-old boy from a suspected cybersex operation in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on Monday afternoon.

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by Melvin Gascon, Inquirer, Feb 27, 2018 TUGUEGARAO CITY — Filipino migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are calling on the government to stop employers there from trading their maids among themselves.

Duterte gives up on banning ‘endo’: You can’t stop contractualization because oligarchs don’t want to Another campaign promise of President Rodrigo Duterte bits the dust. After nearly two months in office, Duterte admitted that snuffing out ‘endo’ or contractualization was easier said than done.

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by BRIAN PUBLICOVER, Feb 26, 2018 The 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are on track to make solar and other renewables account for 23% of the region’s total primary energy supply (TPES) by 2025, but governments will need to create better policy and investment frameworks to make it happen, according…

By Samuel P. Medenilla, Businessmirror, Feb 26, 2018 The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said directly hired Filipino household service workers (HSW) are still banned from being deployed to Malaysia despite a new regulation of the Malaysian government relaxing its recruitment policy for migrant HSWs.

Sunday, February 25, 2018 By RONALD O. REYES, Feb 25, 2018 THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Anti-Human Trafficking Division rescued 13 cybersex victims, including minors, in separate operations in Tacloban City and Culaba town, Biliran province, last Friday, February 23. The victims were rescued when NBI agents conducted an entrapment operation against three suspects…

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