SANTIAGO CITY, Philippines – Finance Secretary Margarito Teves sees the growing population of Filipinos as one reason why benefits from the country’s economic upswing have not trickled down to the poor.

A Sangamon County jury last week awarded a former Springfield postal worker and part-time handyman $2 million at the conclusion of an asbestos-exposure trial.

An Act Protecting Employees in Cases of Merger or Consolidation, Sale or Transfer of All or Substantially All Assets or Businesses of Their Employers and Other Purposes Continues the employment of workers if the resulting company becomes bigger, otherwise redundancy is the only ground for termination of employment and sets out rules on recognition of…

An Act Adopting Integrated Coastal Management as a National Strategy to Ensure the Sustainable Development of the Country’s Coastal and Marine Environment Resources and Establishing Supporting Mechanisms for Its Implementation. Adopts ICM as the policy framework to promote the sustainable development of coastal and marine environment and resources for food security, sustainable livelihood, poverty alleviation…

Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Vice President Alejandro Villaviza and TUCP Part-list Representative Raymond Democrito Mendoza welcomed the resolve of trade union leaders attending the NACUSIP / PACIWU / CIO–ALU / FLO–ALU  National Convention to pursue more aggressive action on Reproductive Health programs and services in the workplace at the company and local…

Victims’ families appeal for government’s help MANILA, Philippines—Twenty-three Filipino seamen who were kidnapped five months ago by Somali pirates are now with hardly any food and water aboard their hijacked ship MV Irene, their families said recently.

MANILA, Philippines—Pregnancy outside of marriage may not be used as a reason to expel or refuse teachers and students from school with the passage of the Magna Carta of Women, Senator Pia Cayetano pointed out Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines—Worried over the growing number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) infected with HIV, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) wants government agencies to build up efforts to heighten awareness of the disease among foreign-bound laborers.

MANILA, Philippines – Police have detained 10 leaders, members and employees of an overseas Filipino workers’ group in Saudi Arabia on suspicion that they were harboring runaway OFWs who had been charged criminally by their employers.

MANILA, Philippines—The top official of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Sunday said that he would ban passenger jeepneys from plying Edsa with the completion of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) 1 North Extension Project next year.

Escape from crossfire (First of two parts) DATU PIANG, Maguindanao—Now that his year-old son has recovered from diarrhea inside an evacuation camp here, Zacaria Lipulis is anxious to go back to his farm in Barangay Ganta in nearby Datu Saudi Ampatuan town so he can adequately feed his family with corn and other root crops.

MANILA, Philippines—Health Secretary Francisco Duque III Sunday urged the public to bring complaints against drugstores that continue to sell medicine at exorbitant prices to their nearest health center.

MANILA, Philippines—As the military poured more weapons into Mindanao following President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s order to “annihilate” the Abu Sayyaf bandits, the country’s top human rights watchdog Sunday warned warring sides against committing atrocities on both civilians and combatants.

CEBU, Philippines – Abuse charges were filed in court against two Indian nationals for allegedly abusing their house help sexually inside their rented house in Maghaway, Talisay City.

MANILA, Philippines – Catholic bishops have vowed to continue to support pro-life groups in opposing the passage of the controversial Reproductive Health Bill.

MANILA, Philippines – Alarmed over the rising number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) afflicted with HIV, the country’s largest labor group yesterday pushed for additional funding for intensified anti-HIV campaign.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) with the Philippine Desposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) will come up with a rescue package for troubled banks across the country through mergers instead of direct government infusions.

A senator yesterday said she plans to file a Senate resolution to investigate the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to find out how it spends the funds contributed by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) now amounting to $11.4 billion.

Adopting a sustainable lifestyle starts at home. From what habits we can change to what new habits we will develop.  Such changes will benefit our purse, our health and ultimately, the planet.

The proverbial thinking that children are the future of the motherland may already sound like a broken record. However, amid the continuing assault against the basic rights of the young generation, its importance cannot be overemphasized.

Dear PAO, I was hired by a company in Valenzuela City in February 2007. By September, I was a regular employee. As a regular employee, I understand that I am entitled to five days of sick leave and five days of vacation leave. Am I correct? Our company made me sign a document stating that…

DÉJÀ VU describes the financial meltdown’s impact on migrant workers. Repatriation, more border controls, punitive penalties for undocumented migrant workers, and no new or higher levels of employment in host countries will be the same this year as has happened in the Asian financial crisis of 1997, according to Dr. Maruja Asis, Scalabrini Migration Center…

Filipino women now outnumber the men in working and settling abroad.

Low-skilled overseas workers are the country’s top senders of money from abroad.

GENEVA: Rising unemployment as the global recession worsens is damping flows of migrant workers and many are returning to their home countries.

Special Report: OFWs cope with crisis    About two million Filipinos working in the Middle East will not be spared from the global financial crisis by petro dollars as oil-exporting countries post a mere 3.6-percent growth this year.

MANILA, Philippines – In yet another testament to the Filipinos’ world-class skills and ingenuity, nine Philippine projects successfully hurdled the rigorous selection process of the World Bank Group’s 2009 Global Development Marketplace Competition, an international contest aimed at identifying and funding innovative, early-stage projects with high potential for development impact.

Nearly 200 party-list groups are now seeking accreditation to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the coming May 2010 polls.

BAGUIO CITY – The Department of Education should include discussions on labor rights in the curriculum of high schools in the country to boost productivity in the workforce, a University of the Philippines professor said here on Friday.

CEBU, Philippines – Concerned over the health safety of the thousands of call center workers in the city, Councilor Edgardo Labella has asked both the government and non-government research organizations, including the schools, to come up with a statistics of profiles of such employees who allegedly suffered adverse health conditions because of their jobs.