“We all know great concepts are attractively elegant. Yet the underlying realities do not necessarily agree with the beauty of the theory,” Mr. Pangilinan told the members of the ASEAN Law Association during its 12th General Assembly.

Women make up over half of our population. Their contribution to society has been incalculable, but disparities clearly remain between the fulfillment of their needs, on the one hand, and the services and protections afforded them by the state, on the other.

LAGUNA, Philippines – A lineman died while two others were injured after they were electrocuted as they were working on a power barge of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines in Bay town here Saturday.

Posted on March 2, 2015 Statement of the Office of the Cabinet Secretary: On post congestion [Released on March 2, 2015] We are pleased to report, that with the combined efforts of the Cabinet Cluster on Port Decongestion, the Technical Working Group of various agencies, and the cooperation from the private sector, operations at the…

MANILA – Filipino workers under the Employment Permit System (EPS) in Korea enjoy most rights and wages accorded to their Korean counterpart.

GENEVA – More than one billion young people risk damaging their hearing through listening to loud music, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

MANILA – The Philippines is now the twelfth biggest grower of genetically modified (GM) crops. This was achieved in 2014 when 415,000 farmers planted Bt (Basillus thuringionsis) corn in 831,000 hectares, enabling the country to maintain its rank as among the world’s “biotech mega-countries” or nations that produce GM crops in 50,000 hectares or more,…

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MANILA, Philippines – The salaries of workers in at least seven regions in the country are lower than the poverty threshold, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – What hinders the Philippines from ending hunger and malnutrition? According to several civil society organizations, the apparent lack of a “clear-cut government policy on the right to adequate food” is pushing Filipinos deeper into the hunger trap. “The government’s lack of rights-based national food strategies that could have helped eradicate this dire…

MANILA, Philippines – Distributing land to farmers is one of the important steps in attaining food security in the Philippines, Hilal Elver, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, said Friday, February 27. Elver’s preliminary report during her 7-day visit urged the government to properly implement the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Extension with…

MANILA, Philippines – A Bloomberg survey of economists shows the Philippines will be the second fastest-growing economy in the world this year, second only to China.

China tops the list, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg Emerging markets in Asia and Africa still reign supreme: They’re at the top of global growth projections over the next two years.

Few people in the middle class really understand the mindset of the richest people. After all, if they did, they would be among the top earners as well. We’ve all heard the remarks: Rich people are lucky, rich people had an unfair advantage, rich people are crooks, rich people are selfish, etc. These are mostly…

THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) is pleased with the positive response of the different local communities in the Child-Labor Free Barangay Project.

MANILA, Philippines – The dismissal of an employee of a Catholic school on the grounds of premarital sexual relations and pregnancy out of wedlock was illegal, the Supreme Court (SC) has ruled.

MANILA, Philippines–The Department of Health (DOH) is seeking to promote an increased awareness of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among Filipinos following reports of the emergence of a new and more aggressive form of the virus that leads to the faster development of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

MANILA, 25 Feb. (PIA)–The Department of Labor & Employment (DOLE) advised youth to join JobStart Philippines and develop life skills to be able to jumpstart their careers, be it as wage earner or as entrepreneurs.

Sex and pregnancy, for some, will always be a mystery only meant to be solved later on in life. Or sometimes earlier, but only by accident. MANILA, Philippines — Mama, I’m bleeding.

Building and bolstering labour market institutions is crucial for reducing inequality because market forces alone will not do the job. Apparently, the first step in solving a problem is admitting that one exists. If so, it is welcome that inequality trends are in the spotlight and there is concern about its potential consequences. But now,…

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine exports growth should remain strong this year on the back of an improving US economy and better prospects with the integration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), the research arm of Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. said.

CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines – Two construction workers were injured when a septic tank exploded in the Science City of Muñoz Thursday.

MANILA – With school graduation season fast approaching, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) challenged the unemployed youth on Saturday to develop “life skills” that can help jump start their careers, either in wage employment or entrepreneurship.

The Philippines has overtaken India as the largest hub for call centers in the world with more than one million Filipinos working in call centers and the related Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry as of August 2014. Call centers are one segment of the BPO industry, which involves outsourcing non-primary business activities such as payroll,…

The cooperative enterprise model is seeing a renaissance around the world. The turnover of the largest 300 cooperatives in the world over the last 3 years has grown by 11.6 per cent to reach 2.2 trillion USD in 2012. Preliminary data from 76 countries points to more than 250 million people working in co-operatives. The…

MANILA, Philippines — Staff turnover has always been a big concern for business process outsourcing (BPO) companies in the Philippines.

BANGKOK (ILO News) – Leaders around the world are talking about inequality. With the global economy still dragging there are growing fears that rising income disparities could hamper growth and reverse social progress. At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, inequality was highlighted as the defining challenge for 2015. Here in the Asia-Pacific region,…

The country has much more work to do to overcome the problem of child labor. Child labor exploitation is worsening in the Philippines. In 2011, the Philippine National Statistics Office reported that there were 5.5 million working children in the country, 2.9 million of whom were working in hazardous industries such as mines and plantations.…

You have been lied to and so have I. Blame our parents, teachers, and the last 20 years of business gurus for their deception. We have been aiming so hard for success — under the guise of “work/life balance.” There’s just one problem: we’ve been grasping for the wrong trophy.

CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines- – Twenty teenagers working at a sugarcane plantation in Balayan, Batangas were rescued by authorities over the weekend, police reported yesterday.