The launch of the Magna Carta of Women Implementing Rules and Regulations (MCW IRR) last week is hailed as a ground-breaking event as it provides the legal framework that recognizes women’s role in nation-building, and promotes equality between women and men in Philippine society.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration employees’ association yesterday urged the Aquino administration to increase the salaries of Pagasa personnel, particularly weather forecasters, to prevent them from leaving the country for better paying jobs abroad.

TACLOBAN CITY—The International Labor Organization (ILO-Manila)is coordinating with the labor department in the region in its bid to address child labor problem in this part of the country.

LABOR groups would expect an ugly response from the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Northern Mindanao in their petition for a P75 across-the-board wage increase aimed at “uplifting the lives of the workers.”

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Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile has expressed alarm over the reported “meddling” of religious sectors in the fight for the Senate presidency, noting the apparent violation being committed by the religious groups on the principle of the separation of powers of Church and State.

Gunmen believed to be members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) burned down several logging equipment worth millions of pesos in an inner Isabela town on Thursday, a military report said yesterday.

THE previous administration has spent most of the 2010 budget, leaving the government only 10 percent or about P100 billion to cover expenses for the next five months, President Benigno Aquino III said Friday.

Former Senator Nikki Coseteng believes that overhauling the educational system of the country is difficult, but doable.

The Tahanang Walang Hagdanan located in Cainta, Rizal is perhaps the premiere private institution in the country that has championed the cause of people with disabilities (PWDs).

During my years of writing a sex and relationship column for a men’s magazine, the question I always get from men, was: “Does size really matter?” Of course, I got a bunch of other variations—some colorful and some mathematical (think in terms of ratio and proportion)—of that inquiry. That question would usually come on the…

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday vowed he would intervene if US unemployment worsens, amid evidence of a jobless and tepid recovery.

MANILA, Philippines – A helper died and a cook suffered severe burns on his face and both arms in a 30-minute fire that broke out at a canteen in Malabon City Thursday afternoon.

It is precisely the nightmare that haunts investors considering putting in billions of dollars in the Philippine economy. The Bloomberg newsflash read: “Mining ban looming in the Philippines.”

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo is the only member of the Arroyo Cabinet who was retained by President Aquino.

Some 2,300 leaders and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) appealed to the Supreme Court (SC) to take a second look on the 27-year-old case and decide on the full merits of their petition, seeking to enforce National Labor Relations Commission’s order for the Texas-based giant group employer to pay all the 1,975 OFW-petitioners more than US…

MANILA, Philippines—It should disturb the nation, not just the new administration, that total hunger increased by 1 percentage point compared to the second quarter of 2009, and severe hunger was also higher compared to the first quarter of 2010 because the second quarter encompassed a presidential election which should have been a major redistributive event.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines—At the height of the election campaign in May, a tarpaulin showing top communist rebel Leoncio Pitao, or Commander Parago, shaking hands with then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte of Davao City was burned by hard-core anticommunist Pastor Jun Alcover and retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan—right at the bosom of insurgency in Paquibato District.

MANILA, Philippines—As the administration of President Benigno Aquino III settles down and braces for work for the next six years, a review of the latest National Nutrition Survey (NNS) might be imperative to guide it in one of its proclaimed crusades—to reduce poverty.

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Two men filed a complaint for grave misconduct before the Office of the Ombudsman for the Visayas against the members of the barangay Basak police in Mandaue City.

The Indian BPO scene is ably challenged from different frontiers. The primary competition in the call center industry that they are facing comes from the countries like Philippines and those in Latin America and Africa. What makes these countries challenge the domination of India in the business process outsourcing industry?

HANOI – Canada on Friday signed a friendship and non-aggression pact with Southeast Asia, saying the region has made progress on human rights.

International labor group calls for better work conditions, standards A new International Labor Organization book launched Wednesday in Geneva and Manila suggests that the multibillion-dollar business process industry (BPO) – call centers – should be open to listening to workers’ collective voice and engaging in social dialogue to improve working conditions in their high-strain workplaces.

A call center job requires you to do customer service tasks on a remote basis using latest technologies. This is broadly classified into inbound and outbound calls. In the former, calls are received and the latter involves making of calls. This kind of job can be home-based but most of them have an on-site location.

Saying he has marching orders from Malacañang to create more jobs, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Gregory L. Domingo said achieving 3 million jobs in five years would be achievable.

WASHINGTON—Shrugging off investors’ fears of a double-dip recession and punishing deflation, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke predicted on Wednesday that a moderate US economic expansion is likely to continue despite numerous threats to growth.

BACK-OFFICE outsourcing is creating “reasonably good” jobs in poorer countries, but staff are stressed and some work conditions have to be improved, a United Nations study said Wednesday.

The nation’s labor force is it’s most productive assetRepublicans favor the minimum wage — the smaller the minimum wage, the better. — Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1943-1953)

FACED with limited resources, the government will be doing a “triage” in determining which industries will get the support to survive, and those that will be allowed to die an “orderly” death.