Members of the Social Security System (SSS) can make phone inquiries about their contributions, benefits, loans and other SSS concerns beyond regular business hours with the new SSS call center, which is open to callers for 16 hours every weekday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is now experiencing the best real estate market in the last 20 years, real estate and advisory firm CBRE Philippines said yesterday.

After crying over the latest blow to our academic ego by QS Asian University Rankings, let us look seriously at the top Asian universities and see if we can copy their best practices. Whether or not the rankings are correctly computed, it is clear that the top Asian universities indeed command the respect of academics…

MANILA, Philippines – Students who think computer-gaming or being tech-savvy is just for pastime and cannot be a career, should think again. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday urged tech-savvy students to consider computer-based courses and help solve the country’s skills mismatch problem.

ORANGE COUNTY — The recent attempt of the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) to start the ball rolling for the new Basic education program K+12 or Kindergarten plus Grade I to Grade XII is simply to re-label the current 10 years of elementary grade school I to VI plus the four years of high school…

MANILA, Philippines – Education Secretary Armin Luistro allayed fears of private colleges and universities of losing business with no freshmen enrolling in 2016. The first year of a two-year senior high school will be put in place that year under the department’s Kindergarten+12 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) program, since the schools would be allowed to…

MANILA, Philippines – More people are now working part-time and they seem contented not having a full-time job. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said results of the April 2012 Labor Force Survey (LFS) indicated a rise in part-time employment and a decline in full-time employment nationwide.

Former senator and Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) President Ernesto Herrera commended the International Labor Organization (ILO) for acting swiftly on the complaint lodged by TUCP concerning the nomination of a workers’ adviser in the 2012 International Labor Conference in Geneva.

The Social Security System (SSS) is planning to shift the release of its short-term benefits and salary loans to electronic disbursements for ease, proper and hasty transfer of funds to recipients.

THE Trade Union Congress of the Philippines on Wednesday assailed the Department of Labor and Employment for interfering with internal union matters and privileges of the labor group by nominating a non-TUCP member as a worker adviser in the 2012 International Labor Conference in Geneva, according to former Senator and TUCP president Ernesto Herrera. But the…

IN LIGHT of the rising incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Central Visayas, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) assured members of utmost confidentiality in the processing of their benefit claims.

The transition towards a greener economy is expected to affect about half of the global labour force or roughly 1.5 billion people. This means changes in terms of job types and workers’ skills – a topic that is high on the Rio+20 agenda.

Rolled back prices being imposed by some of the oil companies in the country should be higher considering the continuing reduction in cost of imported fuel products and those in the world market, Sen. Ralph Recto yesterday said.

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MANILA, Philippines – The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) has offered a $3-million grant to improve the lives of some 6,000 informal garbage workers in the Philippines.

As the world leaders and the International Monetary Fund gather in Los Cabos, Mexico on Monday fretting on Europe’s uncertain future and trying to inject new confidence in the deteriorating global economy, a Filipino economic team, sans the NEDA Director General, is touring the United States on what is called a non-deal road show. The…

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has sounded the alarm on the increasing number of part-time workers or underemployed Filipinos—7.312 million of them now—and of jobless Filipino youth—1.450 million of them at present.

MANILA, Philippines—The Social Security System posted a net revenue of P13.96 billion in the four months to April this year, an increase of 49 percent from the P9.37 billion reported in the same period last year.

MANILA, Philippines—Two senators on opposite sides of the reproductive health debate may have finally found common ground. Senators Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada have filed separate bills seeking to curb abortion by putting up a “national program” providing women with what they call “alternatives to abortion.”

“The ‘self-rated’ poverty findings of survey entities that exist in super-abundance are subjective perception data that have limited usefulness for understanding factual conditions in the real world.”

More Filipino exporters are using the Asean Australia New Zealand Free Trade agreement (AANZFTA) as Philippine utilization rate increased by 76.1 percent in 2011 compared to 64.1 percent in 2010.

Last week, preparatory to considering recent developments regarding both wings of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, this column began viewing the history of disunity within the labor movement up to the 1950s. Let’s now deal briefly with the following half-century.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz warned anew Filipino jobseekers from applying for work in Syria owing to the present ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) to that country due to continuing conflict.

MANILA, Philippines – British banking giant Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. (HSBC) expects remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) growing by 5.4 percent this year.

Manila, Philippines – Party-list groups may just have to rely on luck to get to the top of the list in ballots and get more attention from voters, as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has decided to do away with the system of listing their names in alphabetical order beginning in the 2013 polls.

Manila, Philippines – Health Secretary Enrique Ona disclosed that the latest survey of the National Statistics Office (NSO) showed an alarming increase in the number of deaths caused by pregnancy or childbirth complications. Based on the 2011 Family Health Survey, maternal mortality rate in the country went up to 221 deaths per 100,000 live births…

One of the most tragic events that can befall a labor federation, and any organization and movement for that matter, is when its great leaders would split to the great damage and prejudice of the general membership. But the very unfortunate parting of ways between the venerable Democrito “Kito” Mendoza and former Senator Ernesto “Boy”…

How healthy is the Philippine job market? Its condition has remained weak, and may have even deteriorated slightly, from where it was a year ago, according to the April 2012 Labor Force Survey (LFS) results. While the unemployment rate eased slightly to 6.9% this April from 7.2% a year ago, the overall quality of jobs…

The World Bank launched on Tuesday a program that seeks to assist policy-makers and other stakeholders engaged in poverty-reduction work.

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipino mothers are dying during childbirth, underscoring their “unmet need” for modern family planning services, the Department of Health said Monday.