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After nearly a decade, 11 workers will finally receive their claims from a company whom they accused of illegally dismissing them in 2001.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) on Monday said it plans to question before the Court of Appeals the denial by the regional wage board to grant a P75 across-the-board wage increase for workers in the National Capital Region.

MANILA, Philippines–Graduates of technical vocational courses have higher chances of getting employed and with a shorter job search period, Technical Education Skills Development Authority (Tesda) Director General Pastor Z. Guiao said.

OFFICIALS of the Labor department and of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) will meet today to start discussing guidelines for a prospective two-tiered wage-setting system.

At least 19 law schools may face closure by the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) as not even a single student from their schools passed the recent bar exams.

After an increase in the wages of workers in Metro Manila was recently approved, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz over the weekend said there are at least eight wage petitions pending with other Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs) nationwide.

THE COMMISSION on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) will start this month a 24-hour citizen help line as a form of public service, an official said.

SIMPLY creating jobs will not be enough to usher in inclusive growth and decrease inequality, according to a study released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a finding that is seen to impact efforts of the Aquino administration to craft a strong employment-generation program in order to stimulate the economy and boost household incomes.

BROADCAST giant ABS-CBN Corp. is accusing leaders of its job pool of “peddling disinformation,” saying it has not terminated workers nor prevented employees from forming a labor union.

THE EXPORT Development Act must be amended to firm up funding for marketing programs and punish government agencies that impede the sector’s progress, Export Development Council (EDC) officials said.

DAEJEON – Asian financial policymakers must brace for possible further shocks given risks to the global economy such as the eurozone turmoil, the International Monetary Fund chief said Monday.

Confidence in Aquino substantial but few pledges expected to be met FILIPINOS’ expectations of the Aquino presidency are optimistic yet at the same time practical, results of a new Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey indicate.

The Catholic Church Hierarchy in the Philippines is strongly opposing the introduction of sex education in the public schools. They say it will encourage youth to engage in premarital and promiscuous sex, learn about contraception and lead immoral lives. Sex education, they say, is the duty and responsibility of the parents not the governments. It…

AN industry group wants discretionary powers for the body that would oversee the implementation of the newly issued Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Development Program (CMVDP). Benjamin Sevilla, Philippine Automotive Competitiveness Council Inc. (PACCI) executive director, told reporters on Friday that the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of CMVDP should be drafted in a way that it…

THE Philippine central bank said it would review this year’s forecast for remittances sometime in the latter part of the third quarter given indications that money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFW) may have peaked. “We are sticking to that forecast for now. Later this year we are going to review the forecast, maybe…

MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has ruled that the two nominees of Ang Kasangga party-list group cannot sit in the House of Representatives because they are not members of the marginalized sector.

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MANILA, Philippines – The International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN-sanctioned institution, is likely to be invited to reevaluate the study conducted by Korea Electric Power Co. (Kepco) on the possibility of reviving the Philippines’ first nuclear facility in Bataan.

MANILA, Philippines — An association of Filipino teachers based in Louisiana, US, received Saturday a prestigious award from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an education sector labor union with almost one million members.

MANILA, Philippines – Vehicle importers are wrong to ask the government to recall the Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Development Plan (MVDP) because of a typographical error in the publication of the Executive Order, the Board of Investments (BOI) said.

The last topic GMA discussed with P-Noy inside the car on their way to the Quirino grandstand was her concern on education. Well, she chose a universal topic to talk about in an uncomfortable moment. It is a subject that people are deeply interested in as we all agree that education is and must be…

3RD IN AQUINO’S FIRST 10 DAYS MANILA, Philippines—An elementary school teacher and member of the party-list group ACT Teachers was killed over the weekend, making him the third member of a leftist group to fall victim to alleged extra-judicial killings in the first 10 days of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.

Pregnant women lined up for free goodies during a commercial promo at a shopping mall yesterday as the Philippines marked World Population Day. Many of those women will need much more help in the course of their pregnancy until they give birth. And they will need continuing help as they try to raise their children…

MANILA, Philippines – Seven wage boards nationwide are discussing pending petitions ranging from P50 to P128.60 across-the-board wage increases, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

New measures are being prepared to boost the protection of household service workers (HSWs) who are working or are about to work abroad. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz vowed to move decisively in reviewing the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration’s guidelines on the matter.

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