By Iris Gonzales (The Philippine Star), Aug 21, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The country’s retailers are now feeling the pinch of heightened competition from the once ignored, but now rapidly growing online shopping business, industry players told The Star.

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), Aug 21, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Employers have raised anew concerns over issues of contractualization and workers’ security of tenure included in certain provisions of 25 bills pending in the House of Representatives.

by Vincent Chin, Aug 21, 2017 I’ve been in South Africa and the US recently. From geography to development both countries are, of course, very different. But they do share some similarities. Take inequality, for example. This issue – which is by no means limited to their shores – has become a deeply rooted feature…

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August 21, 2017, INQUIRER.net In New Zealand farms, Filipino migrant workers in “desperate situations” face widespread mistreatment. Abuse, exploitation, being underpaid, and being exposed to dangerous conditions are just some of the circumstances that Filipinos encounter while working in the dairy farm industry, according to a study titled “In search of decent work”.

By KEVIN A. LAGUNDA CHRISTY, Sun Star, Aug 21, 2017 Mae Arriesgado cried after learning that she cannot post bail, saying she has a one-year-old daughter to take care of. “I want to get out of here,” she said.

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BY JUAN T. GATBONTON, Manila Times, Aug 20, 2017 Economist says indicators look good — or is he just celebrating too early? There’s some good news on the economy—from the observer who follows its ups and downs most closely. The Inquirer columnist Cielito Habito suggests the economy may—at long last—be entering a period of inclusive…

By: Morexette Marie B. Erram, @cebudailynews, Aug 18, 2017 TWO minors were rescued from an alleged online sexual exploitation in Lapu-lapu City on Friday morning. In an entrapment operation conducted by Lapu-lapu City Police, the adult who allegedly exploited the two 14-year old girls was also arrested in a residential house at Sitio Salvage, Barangay Looc…

By Rosabell C. Toledo, Businessmirror, Aug 17, 2017 SHE couldn’t let the doctor cut any of her fingers off so, now, her right hand is stitched inside her belly. As a manual laborer, 24-year-old Cristina Olvinar knew that being an amputee would make it 100 times more difficult for her to earn a decent living.…

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by Chris Doucouliagos, Aug 17, 2017 A world where a few people have most of the wealth motivates others who are poor to strive to earn more. And when they do, they’ll invest in businesses and other areas of the economy. That’s the argument for inequality. But it’s wrong.

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), Aug 17, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The government of Alberta in Canada has stopped the hiring of Filipino engineers and other highly skilled foreign workers, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) announced yesterday.

August 17, 2017 – KAHIYA! PART 2 – The Central Luzon RTWPB issued its Wage Order DOUBLING the wages of some 25,000 domestic workers (kasambahays) in the region.

By Rene E. Ofreneo, Businessmirror, Aug 16, 2017 The Manila office of the International Labor Organization (ILO) has just come up with Decent Work Country Diagnostics: Philippines 2017. The Diagnostics is a comprehensive compilation of facts and figures on the quality—or lack of quality—in Philippine employment. The term “decent work” was coined by the ILO…

by Marc Jayson Cayabyab, Inquirer, Aug 16, 2017 The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) is faced with an inconvenient truth amid its efforts to rid the country of contractualization — it has its own 686 contractual workers.

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By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP BUSINESS WRITER MORIYA, Japan — Aug 16, 2017 Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds — 1,500 a minute, to be exact — on humming conveyor belts that zip and wind in a sprawling factory near Tokyo.

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By RIE TAKUMI,GMA News, Aug 16, 2017 The Philippines is among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries with the slowest broadband and mobile internet connections and is near the bottom of the ranks around the world.

by Frank T. McAndrew, Aug 15, 2017 In the 1990s, a psychologist named Martin Seligman led the positive psychology movement, which placed the study of human happiness squarely at the center of psychology research and theory. It continued a trend that began in the 1960s with humanistic and existential psychology, which emphasized the importance of…

Pixabay, CC BY-SA, Aug 15, 2017 Today, freelancers represent 35% of the United States workforce. In the European Union, the rate is 16.1%. Both figures demonstrate the same global trend: from creative entrepreneurs to those paid by the task, freelancing is on the rise worldwide.

INQUIRER.net, Aug 15, 2017 Image from Facebook/Asuncion Lairocse Lorain Like most Filipinos seeking greener pastures, Lorain Asuncion left her family in the Philippines to earn bigger bucks abroad.

by Stephane Kasriel, Aug 14, 2017 Whenever I talk to people about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, it’s clear there is a lot of anxiety surrounding these developments.

by Steven J. Klees, Aug 14, 2017 The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals represent a remarkable commitment by the international community to eliminate poverty and improve health, the environment, education, and much more in all countries by 2030. The SDG for education is straightforward: “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning…

by Stephane Kasriel, Aug 14, 2017 Whenever I talk to people about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, it’s clear there is a lot of anxiety surrounding these developments.

By Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star), Aug 13, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – With new infections doubling in the past six years to over 10,000 new cases in 2016 alone, the Philippines is facing an “unprecedented HIV crisis,” the global medical journal The Lancet said yesterday.

By: DJ Yap, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Aug 12, 2017 Kabataan Rep. Sarah Elago In the House of billionaires and multimillionaires, Kabataan Rep. Sarah Elago is practically a pauper with a declared wealth of only P50,000 for 2016.

By Danton Remoto (The Philippine Star), Aug 12, 2017 In a recent post that burnt in the social media for days, a transgender hired to work as an outsourced transcriber was told not to return the next day. When she asked why, management said that some of them were “uncomfortable” working with her. How on…

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