Here are the top paying jobs for fresh graduates and which schools companies hire from the most Vernise L. Tantuco, Mar 15, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Fresh graduates working in law, healthcare-related industries, and journalism are the highest paid, according to Jobstreet’s 2017 Fresh Graduates Report. Jobstreet Philippines country manager Philip Gioca presented the report…

By Bob Violino, Mar 15, 2017 The global unified communication (UC) as a service market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 25% between 2017 and 2021, according to market research firm Technavio.

Businessworld, Mar 15, 2017 THE RANKS of those employed but who were seeking more work thinned to a record low in January, according to official data released yesterday that nevertheless showed the employment rate at its lowest and unemployment at its highest in two-and-a-half years.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY, Mar 15, 2017, Pope Francis said Wednesday that employers who fire workers for unclear economic reasons are committing a “very grave sin” and should ensure dignified work for all their employees.

INQUIRER.net US Bureau, Mar 15, 2017 Businesses that can match the speed of progress tend to do well out of the tech revolution. Here we look three very different but equally established industries that have been invigorated by the advent of new tech.

Support for survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery is not good enough to meet their needs, says a new report from over 23 anti- slavery organisations. Government-funded support for human trafficking survivors ends abruptly and too early and there is little information or data as to what happens to them in the longer term.…

By SMBWorld Asia Editors, Mar 13, 2017 Employee salaries in the Philippines’ private sector increased only by 5% year-on-year, on average, according to a report released by Willis Towers Watson. In the recently completed Philippine Total Compensation Survey, the 5% increase is a little lower compared to what companies have been budgeting for merit increase…

By AMY SEGELIN, March 12, 2017 When you are presented with a counteroffer, how do you weigh the options at hand? What else is at stake beyond the dollar comparison? Here are some questions to ask yourself before running right back to the same desk you were sitting in when you first thought about making…

By Elizabeth Marcelo (The Philippine Star), Mar 12, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – A laborer installing a sewer pipe at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City died when he fell into an open pit Friday night.

(The Philippine Star), Mar 12, 2017 “To heighten public accountability and transparency, promote greater collaboration among agencies, and ensure accessible and convenient delivery of services to the Filipino people, the government is refocusing the Results-Based Performance Management System (RBPMS), along with incentive component – the Performance-Based Incentive System (PBIS),” the DBM said in memorandum circular…

Thai PBS Reporters, Mar 11, 2017 A senior official of the European Union warned on Friday that the 28-nation block could review trade agreements with the Philippines if the death penalty bill becomes law and if summary killings continue unabated, The Manila Times Online reported on Saturday.

Worker killed in construction accident at a #UPDiliman roadwork

By Jose C. Sison (The Philippine Star), Mar 10, 2017 There is really something weird and absurd in the recent move of Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief “Bato” Dela Rosa inviting priests to join in the resumption of war on drugs through Oplan Tokhang part 2. It is virtually asking the priests to join the…

Economic integration has not improved promised legal protections JOHN KRICH, Mar 10, 2017 SINGAPORE — From the very outset, Myint’s search for work to support her family had to be conducted outside the law. Like thousands before her, the frightened young woman from Myanmar was recruited by a Yangon labor agency in defiance of a…

Our changing economy has given rise to a nation of freelancers and contractors—and the need for a twenty-first-century social contract. By Nick Hanauer and David Rolf The American middle class is facing an existential crisis. For more than three decades, declining wages, fraying benefits, and the rising costs of education, housing, and other essentials have…

by John McDermott, Mar 9, 2017 It’s harder to get credit when your boss never sees you. The eternal debate over whether to work from home or go into the office took an interesting turn last week in light of new research out of the University of Iowa.

By Jojo Maharlika, Mar 9, 2017 In a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed by DOLE and IOM, a two year project on the adoption of a national master plan for migrant reintegration will be implemented.

March 09, 2017 Water and electric power plants don’t mix well naturally, unless you add some wind. Water tends to corrode and short out circuits. So what’s happening in the the renewable energy industry, where developers are putting jumbo-jet sized wind turbines into stormy seas, is at the very least an engineering miracle.

By: Aie Balagtas See, Leila B. Salaverria, Marlon Ramos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mar 08, 2017 President Duterte, known as “Superman” to a confessed hit man of the so-called Davao Death Squad when he was mayor of Davao City, is taking on Mighty Corp., a Filipino cigarette manufacturer accused of massive tax evasion.

By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), Mar 8, 2017 Peace talks between the government and communist rebels were going well when everything suddenly collapsed. Too bad, since the two sides already had inked three major agreements in three months in Oslo and Rome. Still, President Rodrigo Duterte had to call it all off. Guerrillas in…

By: Tina G. Santos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mar 07, 2017 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Tuesday deferred anew the issuance of the Department Order (DO) draft on contractualization. This came after the labor and management groups asked for four days “to discuss their fundamental differences,” said Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III after…

INQUIRER.net, Mar 07, 2017 A Filipina domestic helper holding a counterfeit passport injured herself after attempting to flee her abusive employer in Kuwait.

By Elmer Recuerdo, Businessmirror, Mar 7, 2017 TACLOBAN CITY—Minimum-wage earners in Eastern Visayas get an increase of between P10 and P25 in daily income based on their sectoral classification. The labor department in the region is urging business establishments to comply to this.

YenAnonymous March 06, 2017 The Senate on Monday, March 06, approved on third and final reading a bill which seeks to expand the maternity leave to 120 days with 22 affirmative votes and zero negative votes.

Recruits complain of false promises, unpaid salaries, poor living conditions in Isabela bioethanol facility Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mar 06, 2017 CAUAYAN CITY—As many as 112 sugarcane workers were taken from a bioethanol plantation on Friday night by a team formed to combat human trafficking in Isabela.

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), Mar 6, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ manufacturing revival will be in full swing this year as the Board of Investments (BOI) expects the share of manufacturing projects in the agency’s total approved investments to double.

By Cecille Suerte Felipe (The Philippine Star), Mar 6, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Cybercrime cases continue to rise with the upsurge in the number of internet users in the country, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said yesterday.

by Mauricio Armellini, Mar 6, 2017 This post highlights some of the possible economic implications of the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” — whereby the use of new technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) threatens to transform entire industries and sectors. Some economists have argued that, like past technical change, this will not create large-scale unemployment, as…

By Charles Kenny, Mar 6, 2017 While the U.S. remains lukewarm about nuclear power, shutting down plants as much as it is opening new ones, the developing world is rapidly adding capacity. Ten new plants came online in 2016, nine of them in the developing world, supporting the largest addition of nuclear power since 1990.…

By Jason Schenker, Mar 6, 2017 In the debate about the impact of automation and robotics on the future of work, there is often a reductive push toward a Robocalypse, in which machines take all of the jobs. While a total displacement of humans is unlikely, a number of different types of jobs face an…