Around 90 percent of the world’s 67 million domestic workers have no access to social security protection, with migrants left particularly vulnerable, the International Labor Organization said. Domestic work is largely “undervalued and unprotected,” the UN labor agency said in a new report. MIGRANT WORKERS Every day, scores of Filipino migrant workers pass through the…

Some 1.23 million semiskilled or low-skilled overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) could lose their jobs should the price of oil in the world market continues to fall, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) officials told the House of Representatives.

MANILA, Philippines – Over 2,500 Filipinos have acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after paid sex, according to the Department of Health (DOH).

By Jaime Laude (The Philippine Star), March 13, 2016 Members of a rescue team have recovered the bodies of three miners who went missing in a flashflood that hit a tunnel in Monkayo, Compostela Valley late last month.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Friday issued a work stoppage order against the contractors for a two-story residential building in Antipolo City, a day after a landslide at the project site killed three laborers. Regional Director Ma. Zenaida Angara-Campita issued the order upon the recommendation of the DOLE officer in charge in…

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), March 11, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Filipino applicants’ lack of skills – not lack of jobs – continues to hound the country’s labor market as only 10 out of 1,000 applicants are getting hired on the average.

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MANILA – Women workers in the Philippines along with their foreign counterparts continue to grapple with long work hours including unpaid work, wage disparity, and high incidence of informality, according to a 2016 report by the International Labor Organization (ILO).

MANILA, Philippines – Women and girls from countries in the Western Pacific Region, including the Philippines, are at a greater risk of falling victim to domestic violence inflicted by someone familiar to them, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

The executive director of the Commission on Population (PopCom) admitted that the Philippines lags behind other countries in Southeast Asia when it comes to reproductive health.

By Eva Visperas (The Philippine Star), March 8, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Less than a third of Filipinos pay income tax, a high-ranking official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue said.

By Rey Gamboa (The Philippine Star), March 8, 2016 Even with the recent ups and downs in crude oil prices, the fact remains the average levels today continue to be depressed if compared to the $100 per barrel pricing that fueled the world economy for more than a decade.

MANILA — Does urinary tract infection (UTI) know no sexes? Unfortunately, the bacteria E. coli that causes UTI is more common among women than men.

Carpio’s revelation Contrary to what the public has been led to believe, there is no 9 – 6 majority vote in favor of declaring Mrs. Grace Poe Llamanzares a natural-born citizen, and qualified to run for President. This is what we learn from the dissenting opinion of Senior Associate Justice Carpio, who revealed the real…

A ranking male official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development has been charged before the Sandiganbayan for allegedly sexually harassing a young man.

According to the World Health Organization, almost two out of three Filipinas are not using any birth control method. This results to unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions.

THE Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC) has listed a number of constraints that are hampering the manufacturing sector from sustaining the steady growth that it has experienced in the last five years. “While existing data spark optimism, industry players are cognizant that a number of constraints hamper the sector’s upward trend,” the group…

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Sex before marriage has become more common among youth in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a recent report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

By Edu Punay (The Philippine Star), March 4, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Various labor groups yesterday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to strike down Republic Act 6727 or the Wage Rationalization Act that sets different regional minimum wages in the country.

CARMONA, Cavite – Umabot sa 30 katao, kasama ang isang buntis, ang isinugod sa mga ospital kahapon, matapos makalanghap ng ammonia gas na sumingaw mula sa isang ice plant na matatagpuan sa Golden Mile Industrial Complex sa Barangay Maduya, ng bayang ito.

By Ed Amoroso (The Philippine Star), March 3, 2016 CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines – At least 47 people were hospitalized following an ammonia leak at an industrial park in Carmona, Cavite, yesterday.

by Philippine Star, March 2, 2016 BANGKOK – Governments must provide migrant laborers with the same benefits and social protections they give their own citizens, which will boost their economies and worker productivity, a United Nations official said.

By Gerardo P. Sicat (The Philippine Star), March 2, 2016 Inclusive economic growth achieves sustained and improving quality of employment, rising incomes and productivity and higher standards of living for the country’s citizens. It happens best when the macroeconomic environment is stable, with fiscal, monetary and trade policies in relative balance.

By Jaime Laude (The Philippine Star), March 2, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Search and rescue operations are ongoing for three small-scale miners who remained missing yesterday after a flood hit a mining tunnel in Monkayo, Compostela Valley on Saturday.

Written by Joe Myers, 29 February 2016, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/02/these-scientists-have-predicted-which-jobs-will-be-human-only-in-2035?utm_content=buffer71981&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer By 2035, workplace changes will see us looking for jobs as remote pilots or online chaperones.

A new wage order also allows domestic workers in Eastern Visayas to bargain for higher salaries with their employers MANILA, Philippines – Domestic workers in Eastern Visayas will soon receive P500 more in their monthly salaries with a recently approved wage order by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Region 8.

The government’s lackluster efforts to combat smuggling have dragged down growth in the agricultural sector, which is already facing other challenges including El Niño and weak infrastructure.

Download the reports here. Executive summary http://www.ucw-project.org/attachment/child_labour_youth_employment_philippines_summary20160224_131303.pdf Full report http://www.ucw-project.org/attachment/child_labour_youth_employment_philippines20160224_131424.pdf

About two decades ago, former president Fidel V. Ramos gifts the Asia Pacific HIV community with an HIV law MANILA, Philippines – When the Philippines passed the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Act in 1998, it was celebrated as a pioneering law that primarily aimed to protect the rights of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and…

LONDON – Forced labor among migrant domestic workers is widespread, with many women exploited even before they have left their home country and later abused by their employers abroad, a survey of modern slavery in the sector has found.