IMPROVING QUALITY of jobs will be a key challenge for the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia and the Pacific this year, the latest report of the International Labour Organization (ILO) said.

NEW TAX LAWS will be pursued by the Aquino administration based on the draft 2011-2016 Philippine development plan, with officials saying a pledge not to push adjustments could be dropped by next year.

The Philippine government should stop deploying seafarers in ships that don’t have safety practices to combat piracy in place, a US naval official said Monday.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines (PNA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao announced Monday the one-percent increase in the region’s employment rate.

THE major public and private hospitals have stopped providing on-the-job training to registered nurses following a disagreement over their internship fees, the Philippine Hospital Association said Sunday.

THE PALACE and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) held another dialogue on the reproductive health (RH) issue yesterday, underscoring the importance of free and informed choice on family planning, a Palace spokesperson said.

MANILA, Philippines – Rampant crime, terrorism and insurgency contributed to the big drop of the Philippines’ Global Peace Index (GPI) ranking in 2010.

Home is in the heart–and where the purse is By JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia—In January 2001,the young couple Dennis and Mylene del Rosario took their six-year-old son Daryl Mikko with them to Jeddah.

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MANILA, Philippines – A total of 2,448 Filipinos in distress were repatriated from Saudi Arabia’s western region last year, the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah said Sunday.

ABOUT the cement industry-which is so essential to our country’s physical and infrastructure development and yet so unsatisfactory as it is now-the Aquino administration must do better than the previous one.

Here is a funny material credited to anonymity and which I got from the Web. Have you ever had your application for a job rejected? Don’t ever let that happen again. And the next time another nasty, old rejection letter comes your way, respond with your own:

This undated file photo shows a local labor group staging a rally against cement importers who are allegedly committing massive tax fraud.

MANILA, Philippines –  Dutch financial giant ING Bank NV said the inflation rate in the Philippines would kick up this year and next on the back of higher transport fares, road toll, oil prices as well as power rates.

MANILA, Philippines – The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has released a schedule by which taxi operators can have their meters calibrated to reflect the approved fare increase.

Like other industries the cement industry also suffers from the smuggling of the product from abroad. One type of smuggling is outright. This is when importers bring in the product without the government knowing. The other type is undervaluation and misdeclaration. Misdeclaration is when the real amount of imported cement is declared to be much…

Here we go again. Some people want to dance the Cha cha again. Cha cha is of course the adopted moniker for Charter change, a revision of the 1987 Philippine Constitution.

A 2007 article written by Rafaelita Aldaba, a senior research fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), cites a study of the cement industry showing that imports arising from trade liberalization do not have a favorable effect on domestic firms and do not bring down local prices. She noted that cement firms are…

MANILA, Philippines –  With the announcement of President Aquino that the Reproductive Health (RH) bill would be one of the priority bills of the Aquino administration, Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales yesterday reminded the government that morality could not be legislated.

IS there a cement cartel? Why are cement prices so high? No one really knows who’s telling the truth. The producers say they are doing nothing wrong, and that the price of cement here is less than that in Brunei, India, Indonesia and even Japan.

MANILA, Philippines –  To jumpstart the process of amending the 1987 Constitution without making the issue divisive, Charter change (Cha-cha) proponents in the House of Representatives said they would limit the debates to economic provisions that urgently need reforms.

MANILA, Philippines –  The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has expressed disappointment over the hiring scheme for Filipino nurses and caregivers under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).

Local and overseas jobs will be offered! Top local companies and overseas recruitment agencies will be there to offer thousands of jobs! Ready your resumes and visit the 14th Metro Job Fair!

MANILA, Philippines—A congressman who recently visited distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia on Saturday called on the government to immediately repatriate them.

MANILA, Philippines—The number of active manpower agencies licensed by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has dropped by almost half from 1,200 in the 2007-2008 period to less than 700 active companies now, a recruitment consultant said Sunday.

MANILA, JANUARY 23, 2011 (STAR) By Sheila Crisostomo – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has expressed disappointment over the hiring scheme for Filipino nurses and caregivers under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).

FOR perhaps the nth time, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reminded banks and credit-card companies on Friday to engage in fair and reasonable behavior when collecting from delinquent cardholders.

THE PHILIPPINE Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), bucking other state agencies’ moves to approve fewer incentives, plans to keep green-lighting new tax-free sites for investors at its usual pace.

THE 36 million Filipino workers whose quality of life did not improve in 2010 need to face another set of economic challenges this year—a triple whammy of price increases that would further lower their living standards if the necessary interventions will not be put in place on time by the government and social partners.