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A career and recruitment solutions provider, Monster Philippines, has launched its ‘Return2Home’ program encouraging Filipinos residing abroad to explore job opportunities in their homeland.

The landmark treaty setting standards for the treatment of domestic workers that was adopted at the International Labour Conference in Geneva has been widely hailed as a milestone. The Convention and accompanying Recommendation on decent work for domestic workers aim at protecting and improving the working and living conditions of domestic workers worldwide – estimated…

Today, representatives from 143 countries meet in Geneva to debate whether chrysotile asbestos, the kind mined mainly in Canada, should be added to an international treaty regulating the trade in hazardous chemicals. Asbestos is a mineral considered an employment savior in Quebec, a carcinogenic killer elsewhere and a dominant industrial substance in certain developing countries.…

If you have a task interview scheduled in the coming days, you might be a bit nervous. It’s okay to become nervous, but right now you would like to concentrate on the preparation. All of us realize that you need to display up on time for a job interview and be dressed expert, but what…

MANILA, Philippines — The Aquino administration is looking at slashing its subsidies to government owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) next year by almost half of this year’s programmed budget.

MANILA, Philippines – Corporate information appears to be on the target list of a growing number of cybercriminals, who have capitalized on a variety of social engineering techniques to target the weakest link in any type of information security structure — the employees.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has prohibited bank executives from holding multiple positions in related microfinance non-government organizations (NGOs) or foundations to prevent abuses resulting in higher operational risks.

MANILA, Philippines – European countries may stop hiring Filipino seafarers. Labor Undersecretary Danilo Cruz reported that the European Commission’s Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has found deficiencies in the country’s maritime training education and certification system that could lead to ban in deployment of Filipino seafarers in European Union-flagged vessels.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed a petition of a group of commercial pilots to reinstate the pilots of Philippine Airlines (PAL), who claimed they were illegally dismissed in 1998.

Eight Cebuano congressmen have signified their opposition to House Bill 4244 also known as the Reproductive Health bill, and if this is any indication, the Catholic Church maybe slowly but surely winning the campaign against the controversial population measure.

SINGAPORE should consider legislation that makes employers give their domestic helpers a rest day every week, said Madam Halimah Yacob, the Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports.

Takeaway: I would venture to say that most people who waste time at work don’t even realize they’re doing it. Here are four things that can greatly contribute to time wasting. I would venture to say that most people who waste time at work don’t even realize they’re doing it. Here are four things that…

MANILA, Philippines — Recognizing the urgent need to increase public awareness of the preventive aspects of poisoning at home, in school, and workplace, and the general environment, Presidential Proclamation No. 1777 of 2009 has designated the fourth week of June every year as National Poison Prevention Week.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – The world economic recovery remains “slow and fragile” with the outlook uncertain, but China will promote its own rapid and stable growth, Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – A worker died of severe head and body injuries after falling off the roof of a factory yesterday in Valenzuela City.

The government needs P16 billion to pay its arrears to the country’s 112,000 retired soldiers. This prompted Representatives Rufus Rodriguez (Cagayan de Oro City) and Maximo Rodriguez Jr. (party-list Abante Mindanao) to file House Resolution 1158 urging the House committee on veterans affairs to conduct an inquiry into the matter and come up with options…

In the narrative of Mindanao, big business is often portrayed as the bad guy, concerned only with the bottom line. [This also applies to other parts of the country.] So we hear of big businesses that bribe government officials to get favors. We see local communities and NGOs fighting companies that ignore human rights and…

FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City, Philippines—Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff  Eduardo Oban Jr.  has set up human rights offices in all branches of the AFP to investigate cases of forced disappearances of political activists and other people.

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MANILA, Philippines — International action, long overdue, is finally going to help domestic workers, as the 100th annual Conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO) has adopted a historic set of international standards aimed at improving the working conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.

Doe-eyed and frail, with a mellow voice and a cheery smile, nothing about Sara (not her real name) suggested she had been through ordeal after ordeal in her 22 years. Forcibly married at 15 to a much older man, she discovered after the marriage that her husband had HIV, and that he had infected her.…

BAGUIO CITY, June 19 (PIA) – – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is intensifying its efforts towards achieving a Child-free Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – Middle Eastern countries should recognize, guarantee, and protect the rights of domestic helpers and uphold the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) recent adoption of the Convention on Domestic Workers, a migrant workers group said.

GENEVA, June 18 (KUNA) — Most Arab delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILO) supported the adoption of historic international labour standards on decent work for domestic workers on Thursday, with only a handful of abstentions. But some highlighted the challenges to ratification and implementation in Arab countries.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) said Asia, including the Middle East, lags behind other regions in providing good employment conditions for domestic workers.

The Philippines has to do some housekeeping before it can ratify the landmark Domestic Workers Convention giving protection to domestic workers the world over.

A convention adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) has said that domestic workers must have the same basic labour rights as enjoyed by other professionals.

DAMMAM: With the Philippine government sticking to its position that the monthly minimum pay for domestic workers is $400, employers are anticipated to resort to “paper compliance” in order to meet the terms of the work contract.

Geneva – Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, who is currently here attending the 100th International Labor Organization conference, yesterday reported that the Philippines has successfully chaired the ILO’s Committee on Domestic Workers which had adopted a report containing the proposed Convention and Recommendation concerning decent work for domestic workers.