MANILA, Philippines –  The Northern Mindanao wage board has issued a supplemental wage order raising the minimum wage rates of sugar workers in the region by at least P4 to as high as P500, the Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said yesterday.

Media practitioners especially from the press have the main responsibility of according the people their inherent right to know the unvarnished truth. Discharging this responsibility is actually rendering them justice because it is nothing but granting their rights or giving what is due them. Hence, this column will keep on presenting the various views that…

MANILA, Philippines –  Vice President Jejomar Binay has announced that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are members of the Pag-Ibig Fund and among those repatriated from the Middle East will be given three to four months leeway not to pay their dues.

MANILA, Philippines –  Taiwan welcomed President Aquino’s appointment of a new Immigration chief and announced a relaxation of visa requirements for Filipino workers.

MANILA, Philippines –  Records of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and the LPG Industry Association (LPGIA) showed that five out of 10 tanks of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the market are defective and substandard.

THE National Wages and Productivity Commission meets next week to review a petition for a 75-peso increase in the minimum daily wage in Metro Manila amid the rising prices of fuel, electricity, and basic goods and services, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said Wednesday.

The India Asean FTA was signed in Bangkok on Aug 13, 2009, came into effect from Jan 1, 2010 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, in association with industry body Ficci, has released a white paper on India-Asean Free Trade Agreement. Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) is a grouping of 10 countries including Singapore and Indonesia.…

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Eight members of the Board of Trustees of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) might find themselves in the hot seat after the Commission on Audit (CoA) revealed they have received in excess of P11.018 million each in 2009.

A foreign trade group warned yesterday against plans to impose price control on basic commodities amid rising prices, saying such a move would be detrimental to the country.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has moved to next year the mandatory filing of a new requirement called Annual Information Return (AIR) that would list all income that should be subject to withholding tax of an individual earning at least P38,000 a month and which would accompany annual income tax returns (ITR).

THE Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. said the higher-than-expected February inflation points to a higher overall curve that may peak toward the end of the year.

The public’s interest in the health of shift workers has been continually engaged recently, particularly concerning workers in the call center industry. The state of health of this workforce, or occupational health, has been the subject of discussion in various reports that surfaced regarding the alleged health-related consequences of call center work and how factors…

IN November last year, marathon info sessions were held in key cities around the country to talk to manufacturers about the benefits they can derive from the free trade agreements inked with other countries. This was conducted in an effort to increase the level of utilization of these FTAs. After all, of what good are…

MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will allow the optional filing of the annual information return (AIR) for the 2010 taxable year, BIR Commissioner Kim Henares said.

THERE are no jobs available for more than 160,000 registered nurses in the country, a Department of Health official said on Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Mayors and top level local government officials, school administrators, and other education advocates who attended Synergeia Foundation’s 8th National Education Summit have committed to hammer down to zero the dropout rates in public schools in their localities.

MANILA, Philippines – Some 198,000 teachers and other employees of the Department of Education (DepEd) are in danger of losing credits in their contributions with the Government Service and Insurance System (GSIS) after officials admitted they failed to comply with some requirements of the pension fund, a House leader said yesterday.

(Part III of the series Maximizing ECE to Achieve Primary School Competence) Among the first observations of the new CHED Secretary Patricia Licuanan, as soon as she took her oath of office was that there are too many colleges in the Philippines, which are not meeting the requirements and standards the CHED (Commission on Higher…

MANILA, Philippines –  Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez claimed yesterday that the new requirement of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for high-income private taxpayers to file the equivalent of a statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) is unconstitutional.

MANILA, Philippines –  Several lawmakers urged the government yesterday to again control increases in the prices of gasoline, diesel and other oil products.

Calling the Philippines a “key emerging power in East Asia,” British Ambassador Stephen Lillie on Thursday relayed the United Kingdom’s optimism in strengthening bilateral trade with the Philippines as it did in the previous year.

Injecting drug users behind rising HIV/Aids cases CEBU CITY, Mar 9 (PIA) – Health officials are alarmed over the rising cases of the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Cebu due to drug use as the Department of Health (DOH) recently gathered partner agencies and stakeholders in a consultative meeting to address the public health…

Rising oil prices brought by the continuing tensions in Libya, which sits on the largest oil reserves in Africa, may push the Philippine inflation to as high as 8 percent by October, a Metrobank study has showed.

Over 6,000 jobs are up for grabs in a three-day job fair organized by the United States (US) Embassy for displaced migrant workers from Libya and other job seekers, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Wednesday said.

MANILA, Philippines- This month marks the 16th anniversary of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995, which opened doors wider to mining. Calls for its scrapping resound to this day as pro-environment groups could not warn the government enough about the destruction mining brings.

MANILA, Philippines – Vehicle sales grew 5.8% to 22,518 units in the first 2 months of the year, industry data showed on Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Local government officials from almost 50 municipalities, 114 school administrators and other education advocates have set an ambitious target for public schools.

MANILA, Philippines – The government can save up to P5 billion if the incentives scheme for domestic registered enterprises is amended, a joint Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department of Finance (DOF) Fiscal Incentives Reform (FIR) report showed.

Capping interest rates on credit card loans can hurt credit availability badly. Some lawmakers are pushing for measures that would further regulate the credit card industry, including putting a ceiling on interest rates.