GENEVA—In an unprecedented move, world leaders and representatives from the employers’ and workers’ organizations are meeting here for a three-day summit aimed at finding a common ground to combat the global economic crunch and its effect on employment.

The Philippines has sought international help in providing protection to the thousands of foreign seafarers against piracy, particularly those sailors onboard ships plying the pirate-infested routes of the Gulf of Aden and the Western Indian Ocean.

Monday, June 8. Three days after Congress went on its mid-year recess. Over lunch, Ernesto Almocera Jr., program manager for the Center for Advocacy and Policy Development of the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development Foundation Inc., and Roda Avila, Secretary General of the Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines, make no secret of…

LECCE, Italy (AFP) – – G8 finance chiefs on Saturday warned the global economic outlook remained uncertain and risky despite “signs of stabilisation” after talks in southern Italy.

MANILA, Philippines – Exporters remain hopeful the market will post positive growth towards the end of 2009 as the industry is expected to recover from the impact of the global financial crisis, but average growth for the year will remain at the negative territory with an eight percent contraction. 

THE HAGUE, the Netherlands – Somehow words take a very different meaning when expressed by people whose lives are “living examples” of those words.

The world’s largest economies are beginning to stabilise but still face major risks amid an ongoing global recession, G8 finance ministers say.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has reported that deployment of Filipino workers to Nigeria may soon resume after the government has considered lifting the ban.

In developed economies, the most common form of dole-out is unemployment insurance, given to people who have lost their jobs and can’t find new work at once. They are usually time-bound, to discourage undue dependency and spur recipients to exert efforts to quickly find new employment. Governments often complement the dole with placement assistance to…

Many Filipino middle-class families were already lost to the low-income groups years before the global economic crisis started.

RP team placed 3rd   MANILA, Philippines — A Chinese-Filipino student from Zamboanga City took home a gold medal in the 2009 International Regions Mathematics competition held in the United States recently, with the Philippine team placing third overall among 16 teams from different countries.

STATEMENT TUCP VICE PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO C. VILLAVIZA WORKERS’ DELEGATE, PHILIPPINES 98TH INTERNATIONA LABOR CONFERENCE GENEVA IN BEHALF OF THE WORKERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, I WISH TO COMMEND THE EFFORTS OF THE ILO AND THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR THE ACTIONS THAT THE ILO HAS TAKEN TO EDUCATE CONSTITUENTS AND TO ADDRESS THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN.

Free trade agreement in limbo again PARIS: World Trade Organization (WTO) head Pascal Lamy said on Friday he saw no “positive sign” for world trade, which has been battered by the global economic crisis.

MASBATE: Gunmen on a motorcycle shot and wounded a newspaper reporter on Friday, days after another journalist was murdered, local police said.

AMID a slowing economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to undertake a “stress test” of local banks, similar to what its US counterpart, the Fed, did for American lenders that saw their capital erode due to the global financial crisis.

PARIS (AFP) – – The world auto sector, after suffering a sharp decline this year, is set for a 5.0 percent sales rebound in 2010, a study forecast Thursday.

More than 4,000 delegates representing governments, employers and workers are meeting at the annual Conference of the ILO from 3 to 19 June to discuss ways of addressing the global crisis in jobs and social protection. ILO Online asked Raymond Torres, Director of the ILO International Institute for Labour Studies about the current jobs situation,…

MANILA, Philippines—The emergence of various types of health supplements has adversely impacted the growth of the local pharmaceutical sector, according to an industry executive.

MANILA, Philippines—The threat of job cuts abroad has prompted families of overseas Filipino workers to invest more than they used to, according to a survey by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

MANILA, Philippines – Chief Justice Reynato Puno yesterday said that with the sorry state of the nation, Filipinos have no reason to celebrate Independence Day.

MANILA, Philippines – Portfolio investments made a significant turnaround in May, with over $498 million worth of funds coming into the country compared with the $276-million net outflow in April.

MANILA, Philippines – Four Filipino students were among the winners of one of the largest pre-college science and technology research competitions in the world, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ralph Recto is optimistic that dollar remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and an improvement in the performance of the export industry would help the country achieve the government’s latest economic growth projection for 2009.

Unite to avert eruption, says Chief Justice Filipinos should not even go through the motions of marking more than 100 years of freedom from Spanish rule if they continued to allow fragmentation rip the country apart, the Supreme Court Chief Justice said Friday.

Please allow us to respond to The Manila Times editorial on the “deficiencies” of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) published June 9, following its celebration of Migrant Workers Day last June 7.

MANILA, Philippines—Why should a big water utility bother with the financially unrewarding effort of installing drinking faucets, in a city jail, of all places?

Brussels, 12 June 2009 (ITUC OnLine): Millions of children, especially girls, risk falling out of education and into work as the impact of the world economic crisis deepens, the ITUC has warned today, the World Day Against Child Labour.

The world economy will shrink by much more than previously thought, according to the World Bank.

Filipino consumers remained pessimistic in the second quarter as result of the expected lower household income, particularly among middle and low-income families, resulting from the economic slowdown, the central bank reported Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – A high-level mission of the International Labor Organization (ILO) is set to investigate the unexplained killings in the country.