MANILA, Philippines – Less than a month after suspending its operations following the death of six of its workers in an accident, the Singaporean-owned ship repair facility in Zambales has resumed operations.

MANILA, Philippines – Employment opportunities appear bleak for workers in Metro Manila. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday reported that commercial establishments in Metro Manila are hiring fewer workers.  

Despite the assurance of the Department of Education (DepEd) that there are enough “safeguards” in schools to prevent asbestos, the Associated Labor Unions’ (ALU) Ban Asbestos Philippines has maintained that the use of all wire gauzes that contain cancerous asbestos be banned from all classrooms and laboratories.

With the new food culture kindling interest in agriculture, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) is urging more people to engage in green farming, which is considered as more environmental-friendly and more sustainable in the long-run.

Amid the announcement of Saudi Arabia labor ministry that it is going to implement a ceiling on remittances by expatriate workers including overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) “to protect its economy,” a Filipino migrants rights group yesterday urged the Philippine government to seek clarification on the host government about “salary protection” policy.

Trouble erupted at the Philippine Airlines (PAL) In-flight Center (IFC) near the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 in Pasay City early yesterday after protesters blocked one of the airlines’ catering trucks from leaving the terminal.

PHILIPPINE Airlines (PAL) on Friday said more than half of its retrenched workers have received their separation pay as of October 26.

THE Philippines and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed on a multibillion-dollar loan assistance program over a six-year period that would finance governance reforms and other measures needed to drive broad-based growth and poverty reduction efforts.

Have you been in the corporate world too long? You know that’s true when: 10. You’ve re-organized your family into a “team-based organization”.

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 October) – Thirteen barangays in two cities and two towns in Bukidnon have been identified  for the International Labor Organization-funded child protection program starting November, Arsenio Alagenio, Bukidnon provincial social welfare and development officer, said.

THE ARMED Forces of the Philippines has released guidelines to ensure the observance of human rights in intelligence operations.

THE number of jobless Filipinos are expected to rise this year and in 2012 because of the economic slowdown in the US and Europe, a senior official of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) warned Thursday.

REPUBLIC SERVICE Ricardo  Saludo The disaster movie 2012 used special effects to depict imaginary scenes of skyscraping cities lacerated by earthquakes and engulfed by rising seas and erupting lava. In her lecture a week ago, titled “2012 (Not the Movie): A Practical Guide to Disaster Risk and Preparedness,” Manila Observatory executive director Maria Antonia Yulo…

Administrations come and go but so far none of them has realized that not all government policies and programs have to be changed every time a new regime takes over. As happened before and still happening now, it seems that every administration is of the belief that upon taking over, there is an entirely new…

The Supreme Court (SC) has voided the Retirement Financial Plan (RFP) of the state pension fund agency Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).

MANILA, Philippines – The number of Filipino families that experienced hunger grew from about three million households in June to about 4.3 million in September, according to a survey released yesterday by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

Despite the vaunted cash transfer doleouts or the social welfare department’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) the pang of hunger among Filipino households was recorded at its highest since December 2009 with one in five households saying it experienced a day going by with nothing to eat, the results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS)…

Migrant and labor groups from Asian countries urged the Philippines, one of the world’s leading deployers of domestic workers, to pioneer the ratification of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Domestic Workers Convention (C189).

Practically without doing much, the economy grew by an average of four to five percent in the past 10 years mainly as a result of the external sector that included remittances from some 9 million Filipinos working abroad providing the economy with huge potentials but the trump card remains that the government may again flub…

It is again former President Arroyo who should be blamed for President Aquino’s “generosity” with public funds while giving Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chieftain Ebrahim Al Haj Murad P5 million during their “secret” meeting held in a hotel in Japan last August.

Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday expressed support to the Philippine campaign on decent work for domestic workers, particularly on the swift ratification of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 189, otherwise known as “Domestic Workers Convention, 2011.”

SENATOR SAYS NOY MADE BIG MISTAKE IN DEMORALIZING TROOPS The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) yesterday quickly branded as “baseless” the reported brewing coup plot against the administration due to the reported demoralization in the military ranks following the “weak” position taken by President Aquino against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

A Hong Kong court rejected a government bid Wednesday to suspend the processing of residency applications by foreign maids after a key ruling last month paved the way for them to settle in the city.

HUNGER IS AGAIN ON THE RISE, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in a new report, with sharp increases in Luzon overwhelming declines in the rest of the country.

MANILA, Philippines – The move of Philippine negotiators to open the domestic market rapidly has killed local manufacturers, a senior member of the Senate said.

MANILA, Philippines – Saying teachers and students are prone to cancer and other diseases due to exposure to asbestos in classrooms and laboratories, the Associated Labor Union (ALU) yesterday called on the Department of Education and Commission on Higher Education yesterday to ban the use of asbestos in colleges and universities nationwide.

MANILA, Philippines – World population will reach seven billion by Oct. 31 with the Philippines being the 12th most populous country, a report of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFA) showed.

PARIS: A third of humanity, mostly in Africa and South Asia, face the biggest risks from climate change but rich nations in northern Europe will be least exposed, according to a report released on Wednesday.

THE UNITED Nations has presented ways by which countries can address poverty issues in the face of a steadily increasing population that is projected by demographers to reach seven billion by the end of this month.

MINERS now have to either establish a reforestation area or to donate seedlings to the National Greening Program (NGP) under an order issued earlier this month by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB).