DAVAO CITY – The banana industry in Southern Mindanao has found a reason to ask government to exempt it from a P21 wage increase that the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board ordered for workers in the agriculture sector in the region.
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Concerned citizens are asking Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras and ERC Chairman Zeny Ducat to reject the petition for another round of rate increases by Meralco for its so-called distribution, supply and metering (DSM) charges.
IT IS quite obvious, from the way it seeks to double the magnitude of the previous administration’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps, that the P-Noy government has decided this will be its immediate response to poverty. Whether conditional cash transfers will also define its strategic approach to this nagging social problem is not yet…
Malacañang will not extend the stay of non-Career Executive Service Officials (CESO) in Career Executive Service (CES) positions when their stay expires on October 31, Palace spokesman Edwin Lacierda said.
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) Director General Joel Villanueva yesterday called for the passage of proposed measures currently filed in Congress, which will promote, strengthen and institutionalize the ladderized education program (LEP) in the country.
Sen. Franklin Drilon has been harping about the excessive pay, allowances and bonuses of executives of Government owned and controlled Corporations (GOCC) and Government Finance Institutions (GFI), but in his own backyard, the Senate, some Senate executives have been found by the Commission on Audit (CoA) to be receiving excessive allowances and bonuses, with some…
THERE have been proposals to expand the coverage of state-run Philippine Health Insurance Corp. and increase the benefits to its members, but the Audit Commission says PhilHealth has not been collecting enough premium payments, and that the government alone owes it P8.89 billion in premium contributions for the years 2001 to 2008.
MANILA, Philippines – The Aquino administration would need to continue improving on tax administration to strengthen revenues, the World Bank (WB) said in its quarterly update entitled “Stepping Up Reforms to Sustain Growth.”
MANILA, Philippines – A private think-tank has called on Congress to review the existing law on electric power reform to strike out a provision allowing cross ownership between generation and distribution companies.
WASHINGTON—US companies are hoarding nearly one trillion dollars of cash that they are unlikely to use for expansion amid a muddled outlook on economic recovery, rating agency Moody’s said Wednesday.
MANILA, Philippines – Graduates of the more popular computer school chains performed well and enjoyed a high success rate in getting information technology (IT) jobs.
SAN PEDRO, Laguna, Philippines — Authorities have ordered the “temporary shutdown” of Tanduay Distillers Inc.’s plant in Cabuyao, Laguna, following reports that its water discharges had triggered a fish kill in Laguna de Bay. The plant actually burned down last October 15.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Consulate-General in Macau, China, has set a dialog with groups of overseas Filipino workers questioning various Philippine government policies, among them the controversial affidavit of support (AOS) and compulsory membership to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration and Pag-Ibig Fund.
I’m on my way home from Indonesia, where I spent part of the past week attending the annual meeting of the Asian Network for Occupational Accident Victims (ANROAV), an organization that brings together NGOs working on occupational health, safety, and labor issues all across Asia. The meeting was held in Bandung, in West Java —…
MANILA, Philippines – The National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) has ended labor disputes at 2 prominent companies in the country, resulting to hefty economic packages for workers.
A 28-year-old Filipina worker in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was “rescued” after allegedly being assaulted by her Egyptian employers, a UEA-based news site reported.
MANILA, Philippines – Presiding over last week’s Senate finance committee hearing on the 2011 budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Sen. Edgardo Angara called for a review of the various scholarship programs funded by the government through the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in order to assess their status, as well as their…
MANILA, Philippines – The House of Representatives will insert special provisions in the P1.64-trillion national budget to oversee the implementation of the Aquino administration’s controversial P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program next year, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte said yesterday.
WE WISH to call attention to Judy Quiros’ news report titled “Iran embargo used as excuse to exempt firms from wage hikes.” (Inquirer, 10/28/10) The report inaccurately attributed to me this statement: “She said for the banana industry, giving wage increase to workers at this time was simply not possible.” (Paragraph 8)
For those of you who are on the uphill road of getting out of debt and working towards the light at the end of the tunnel, paying off credit cards can feel like it eats up every penny you make. Several months ago, I was paying the minimum or close to it on multiple cards…
Heavy smoking in middle age more than doubles the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia later in life, according to one of the first long-term studies to examine the issue.
The country retained its rank as among Asia’s most corrupt even as it slightly improved in its ranking this year in Transparency International (TI)’s yearly global corruption survey which placed the Philippines 134th out of 178 countries ranked.
MANILA, Philippines – Annual revenues of the country’s information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) sector could more than double to $25 billion – equivalent to a 10-percent share of the global market – by 2016, according to an industry roadmap unveiled yesterday by the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP).
THE Philippines was ranked 12th most corrupt country in the world by Transparency International in 2010, down from last year when it was placed 113th, according to the group’s Corruption Perceptions Index released Tuesday.
PHILIPPINE factory output continued to expand by double digits in August, with imports of raw and intermediate goods keeping pace for the period, according to data released by the government on Tuesday. The National Statistics Office (NSO) said the volume of production index (VoPI) rose 25.6 percent year-on-year in August, accelerating from the revised 22.1-percent…
MANILA, Philippines – Only 43 countries have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
MANILA, Philippines – Business executives in the country are fed up with the prevailing corrupt practices in procurement and supply management and have lined up a series of initiatives aimed at stopping unethical dealings that have cost businesses as much as 50% of their investments here.
MANILA, Philippines – Five big business groups yesterday urged the government to lead in family planning activities as an effective strategy to reduce poverty.
While waiting for the chance to land a job abroad, nursing, engineering, and accountancy graduates in the Philippines should help expand the skills gap in the country, the International Labor Organization (ILO) director to the Philippines said over the weekend. The graduates should fill the manpower shortage in business process outsourcing (BPO), particularly in medical…