PRIVATE sector employees in Metro Manila will get a wage increase next week and those in the provinces within the month, President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday.

LABOR DAY RITES MANILA, Philippines—In a Labor Day speech, President Benigno Aquino III Sunday said he expected minimum wage earners in Metro Manila to get a pay raise by next week, and the rest of them across the country within the month.

AN estimated 5,000 workers from different organizations joined a Labor Day rally in Cebu City and asked government agencies to help them gain a decent living wage.

MANILA, Philippines — Children have rights and privileges guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Every support must be extended to ensure their growth in an environment in which their rights and welfare are respected.

In the past, there were no jobs. Children, fisher folks became fishermen, farmers begot farmers, etc. In the 1970s, James Watt and venture capitalist Matthew Boulton perfected the modern steam engine. That fueled the first Industrial Revolution characterized by a complex interplay of changes in technology, society, medicine, economy, education and culture. Mechanical work started…

Presentation of Issues by Mr. Victorino F. Balais, President of PTGWO, Breakfast with the President 109th Labor Day Celebration Heroes Hall, Malacañang, Manila, 01 May 2011 His Excellency, President Benigno S. Aquino III  Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa, Jr., Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, Secretary Florencio Abad, Government Officials,ECOP and ILO,mga kasama sa kilusang paggawa……

We find ourselves in a catastrophic predicament. All of us. Do not blame governments, presidents, scientists, economists, or political parties. Do not panic. Remain calm and sensible. We must take responsibility for ourselves, wherever we live – and band together as never before if we are to survive.

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Public Lives THERE ARE more workers today who work for wages than was the case 50 years ago. And yet, ironically, the increase in size of the working class has not increased the ranks of organized labor. Workers’ unions today have considerably less power over the conditions of production. Indeed, one can go further and…

COMMENTARY Editor’s Note: The author is a UP political science professor, a former president of the National Defense College of the Philippines and most sought-after commentarist on current events, particularly concerning military affairs.

MANILA, Philippines – When lawyer Malcolm I. Sarmiento retired recently as national director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), the fishing industry used his send-off party as an occasion to celebrate the various milestones in fisheries conservation and development that marked his 12-year stewardship of the country’s premier fishery regulatory agency.

Lamy added to the gloomy atmosphere that has prevailed in recent weeks after negotiators met at WTO headquarters in Geneva to take stock of their most recent attempts to overcome a decade of deadlock.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines has joined other countries in moving forward the negotiations in the long-stalled Doha Development Agenda, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.

MANILA, Philippines – As of January this year, there are some 2.9 million Filipinos who are unemployed, with 500,000 more fresh graduates seeking jobs this month. With labor issues on the rise, the Department of Labor and Employment definitely has been in need of the right person to lead the institution in implementing reforms. It…

MANILA (Updated 1:32 p.m.) — President Benigno Aquino III urged the regional tripartite wage board on Sunday to fast-track the deliberations on proposed wage increase so that all regions will benefit from it next month.

MANILA, Philippines – An estimated 337 million people are injured each year while on the job and some 2 million die from occupational illnesses, the United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) said yesterday.  

MANILA, Philippines—In the past few weeks, the TV landscape has been rocked by the aftershocks of a scandal that erupted after Jan-Jan, a 6-year-old boy, performed what was described as a “macho dance” in the TV5 game show “Willing Willie.”

MANILA, May 1, 2011—Government agencies should provide income generating activities for poor parents to keep their children off the streets, a Church official said.

ASEAN member countries are increasingly accepting the concept of the rule of law for human rights, according to a study conducted by the association`s Human Rights Resource Center (HRRC).

MANILA, Philippines — Education Secretary Armin Luistro has challenged the student trainees of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) to convince the out-of-school youths (OSYs) in their communities to also invest in education through the Open High School Program (OHSP) and the Alternative Learning System (ALS).

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the country’s largest labor group, said workers would not abandon their demand for financial relief on Labor Day.

PANTUKAN, COMPOSTELA VALLEY, Philippines—For Jay Celade, the chance to strike big and earn thousands of pesos in just several hours of working underground means more than the constant risk of death.

At the onset of the global financial crisis, 42-year-old Rosita Vergara lost her job along with some 300 workers in an export-processing zone in Calamba, Laguna.

MANILA, Philippines — The Kananga-EDC Institute of Technology (KEITECH) in Kananga town in Leyte has become a benchmark for alternative education and training program that has transformed unskilled youth into highly-skilled workers. It was jointly founded in June 2009 by geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC), the municipal government of Kananga, and TESDA.

CEBU, Philippines – Meanwhile, a 62-year-old man was killed when limestone, locally known as “anapog,” fell on him in Sitio Pasamanos, Barangay Dawesur, Carmen, Cebu Wednesday afternoon.

Manila, Philippines – After shutting down its manufacturing plant for three days, Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP), the country’s largest auto manufacturer, announced it will cut its production by 50 percent and will reduce its work week to only three days as it grapple with the aftermath of the twin disasters in Japan.

Malacanang’s call for a halt to the heated debate on the RH bill is rather too late. This call should have been PNoy’s stance in his UP commencement speech. He would have really looked more like a Statesman and the President of all the Filipinos if he just initially declined to make a stand on…

MANILA, Philippines – A group of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) yesterday demanded the full lifting of the government’s deployment ban in Bahrain to enable more Filipinos to work there.

THE information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) services had provided support to the economy, despite the challenges posed by the nascent stages of global recovery in 2009, the Philippine central bank said.

MANILA, Philippines – At least one million preschool children are expected to troop to public kindergartens when the school year opens in June, Education Secretary Armin Luistro said yesterday.