by Elijah Felice Rosales (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines continues to attract potential investors, mostly in business process outsourcing (BPO), as inquiries about office spaces have spiked despite the pandemic.

By DJ Yap, INQ, 5 May 2021 Underage girls from Mindanao, some as young as 14, were being sent to Syria using tampered passports under a scheme hatched by unscrupulous recruiters and immigration officers, a Senate committee learned on Tuesday, as it peeled a new layer in the insidious trafficking of young women to the…

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Negotiations for the takeover of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines’ shipyard in Subic may be finalized within two months, Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Steven Robinson said in an online briefing.

by Gerardo P. Sicat (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 May 1 or Labor Day leads us to thoughts about the welfare of our country’s working class. It is a fair question to ask how our working class has benefited from seven decades of political independence.

by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Imposing a carbon tax in the Philippines will significantly help the country and the region address further risks of climate change and will aid in the long-term recovery from the pandemic.

By Roy Stephen C. Canivel, 5 May 2021 The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza) has asked President Duterte to lift the ban on new economic zones in Metro Manila that had discouraged call center companies from either setting up shop or expanding in the capital.

By Roy Stephen C. Canivel, 5 May 2021 A group of local manufacturers, which repurposed their facilities at the request of the government could now make tens of millions of personal protective equipment (PPE) in a year, but the Duterte administration had bought only a portion of that supply, which forced the group to lay…

by Franco Luna (Philstar.com), 5 May 5, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Transport workers on Thursday slammed the delay in the release of funds under the transportation department’s service contracting program, saying “not even one percent” of the budget set aside for it has been spent.

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by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 4 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has extended over P22 million in loans to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) under a facility that seeks to help them start their own businesses.

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by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 3 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Businesses all over the globe have become more optimistic as COVID-19 vaccines are rapidly deployed, but many remain cautious with the virus proving to be unpredictable.

by Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star), 3 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) yesterday terminated the search and rescue operations for the seven crewmembers of the LCT Cebu Great Ocean that ran aground during the onslaught of Typhoon Bising in Surigao del Norte last month.

ITUC AP General Secretary Shoya Yoshida stressed a new social contract for inclusive and income-led growth free from tyranny and inequaity for a principled recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. NTUC PHL President Rodolfo M. Capoquian, in his remarks, led solidarity calls (1) for workers killed and injured in workplace accidents, as well as departed trade…

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MANILA – Senior officials of the United States and Philippine governments conducted on April 29, 2021 the final high-level dialogue to mark accomplishments and outline next steps after the conclusion of the four-year US – Philippines Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership.

By Julie M. Aurelio, 2 May 2021 A House official has filed a bill to fix the pension system for military and other uniformed personnel (MUP) as it faces an “imminent existential threat” because its current funding will be “unsustainable” if no reforms were made soon.

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 2 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Private sector workers in micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) may receive a wage subsidy of P8,000 each for three months as part of the government’s eight-point agenda for employment recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

by Sheila Crisostomo, Rhodina Villanueva, Emmanuel Tupas, Ralph Edwin Villanueva (The Philippine Star), 2 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Workers from various organizations and unions staged simultaneous Labor Day protests yesterday to demand protection against the COVID-19 pandemic and aid amid the recession.

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By: Krissy Aguilar, INQINQUIRER.net, 1 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Saturday said they will hold accountable those who subject health workers to discrimination, intimidation and even red-tagging despite their crucial role in the COVID-19 response.

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by Dona Z. Pazzibugan, 1 May 2021 “Jessica,” a saleswoman in a Metro Manila mall, was jobless for most of 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. She and her husband are contractual workers who earn minimum wage. The initial hard lockdown put them, along with millions of others, out of work.