The Magna Carta of Women, which President Gloria Arroyo signed into law on August 14, will promote the economic rights, opportunities and well-being of women, especially those in the marginalized sectors.

CEBU, Philippines – The number of notices of strike filed before the National Conciliation and Mediation Board from January to August this year is lesser compared to the same period last year, data from the NCMB show.

CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines – President Arroyo will condone some P5 billion worth of unpaid irrigation service fees (ISFs) and irrigation loan amortizations of farmers as a legacy to the farming sector, it was learned here yesterday.

SPECIAL REPORT: WILL MCW BE ENFORCED? The recent alleged beating of Rachel Tiongson, former live-in partner of Deputy National Security Adviser Luis Chavit Singson, hammers home the gains and gaps in the newly enacted Magna Carta of Women (MCW). Feminists now ask: Will the state really use its legal powers and force to punish the…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines wants the tariff rate of 35 percent on rice maintained until 2015 under the  ASEAN Free Trade Arrangement (AFTA) which would likely go into full implementation next year.

MANILA, Philippines – The private sector has intensified its campaign against smuggling as onion farmers and labor unions have joined forces with the Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI) and the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG).

MANILA, Philippines – Senior officials from 22 Asian countries have unanimously adopted the Manila Declaration on Green Industry in Asia and Framework of Action, which is the outcome document of the International Conference on Green Industry in Asia.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday protested the inclusion of the Philippines in the United States’ list of countries with goods produced with child labor.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has rated strongly in a survey of presidential contenders conducted shortly before the announcement of his intention to run in the 2010 elections under the Liberal Party.

MUCH HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT how little GNP (gross national product) or GDP (gross domestic product) really tells us—and yet GNP/GDP remains the most widely used measure for assessing the performance of economies around the world. GNP measures production by a country’s nationals wherever they are (whether within or outside the country), while GDP measures…

HONG KONG—Financial institutions are leading a recovery in the Asian jobs market as the region emerges from recession more forcefully than expected, analysts say.

A BILL converting the Bataan Economic Zone into the Bataan Special Economic Zone and Freeport has been passed by the House of Representatives and is now being deliberated in the Senate.

THE NUMBER OF FILIPINOS optimistic about the country’s employment situation increased in the third quarter, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said in its latest survey.

A man who formerly worked as a pipefitter, welder and pipeliner and his wife have filed a lawsuit against 36 companies, alleging that his mesothelioma cancer was caused by exposure to asbestos that occurred in the workplace.

STRONG sales in the Visayas and Mindanao brought developer Landco Pacific Corp.’s profit to P1.94 billion in the first half, 11 percent higher than its P1.7-billion target for the period, the company said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The non-performing loan (NPL) ratio of universal and commercial banks rose slightly to 3.49 percent in July from the previous month’s 3.36 percent, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday.

It is illegal to discipline (much less dismiss) an employee on the basis of provisions in a company manual which are not provided/explained to employees. It is illegal to require an employee to sign an undertaking agreeing to pay the company an amount (say, P20,000) when the employee resigns from, or worse, fails to qualify…

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign investments in stocks, government securities and peso-denominated assets yielded a net inflow of $182 million from January to August, reversing an outflow of $446 million recorded a year ago, due mainly to improving investor sentiment, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said.

You hate your job. You’re thinking of quitting. You are not happy and you find that you have to drag yourself out of bed every morning so you can go to work. If this is your situation then today’s message is for you.

MANILA, Philippines – Lawmakers yesterday expressed apprehension that a leadership vacuum will result if there is a failure of elections next year.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang has assured the International Labor Organization (ILO) that the government will cooperate in the probe into the killing of 92 labor union leaders.

Entitlement is a strong word. It is synonymous to privilege and prerogative. Entitlement is also a dangerous word. It is filled with pompous self-proclaimed right.

Amadeus Philippines, an information technology solutions provider to the travel and tourism industry, said it will help train tourism students of six universities and colleges, In a statement, Amadeus said it signed agreements with De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, Far Eastern University, Lyceum of the Philippines University, San Sebastian College, University of the Philippines,…

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A massive US stimulus plan has created up to 1.1 million jobs and is expected to lift the economy by three percentage points in the third quarter, the White House said Thursday. Following implementation of the nearly $800-billion plan early this year, “the trajectory of the economy changed materially toward moderating output decline…

At least 170 undocumented Filipino workers stranded under the Khandara Bridge in Jeddah are already set for repatriation, an official said Friday.

A lawmaker has filed a bill seeking to prohibit the use of styrofoam packaging by food service businesses and operations in a bid to curb life-threatening diseases associated with the frequent use of the such packaging.

An internationally renowned information technology (IT) expert yesterday refuted claims by Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) and Smartmatic International Corp. (Smartmatic) joint venture, the winning bidder for the 2010 automated polls, that their hardware and software are fool-proof devices, saying they are vulnerable to attack from hackers all over the world which could render next…

The Philippines, Liberia, Burma and Cambodia use child labor to produce everything, the US Department of Labor said in a report published Thursday.

Home Page A job in a factory is likely to involve the risk of asbestos exposure. Asbestos has been used to make many everyday products such as auto parts, roofing shingles, textiles and paper products.

MANILA – Around 30 overseas Filipino workers employed as household service workers arrived home from Damascus, Syria.