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By CNN Philippines Staff, Feb 10, 2018 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 8) — Despite news that there were thousands of job opportunities available in China for Filipino workers, an official of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said they still need to get more information on the issue.

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AUCKLAND: A New Zealand company is testing an initiative that will see its employees to work four days a week and still get paid for five days. The move by trust company Perpetual Guardian is the first for a major business in New Zealand. The company wants to create a workplace “fit for purpose for…

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral, Feb 9, 2018, PhilStar Global MANILA, Philippines — Income inequality in the Philippines grew over the two years to 2014, according to a new report from Oxfam International.

by Ben O. de Vera, Inquirer, Feb 9, 2018 The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas expects inflation to average 4.3 percent this year and breach the 2-4 percent projected range due to the impact on consumer prices of the first tax reform package and the expected oil price hikes.

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by Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News, Feb 8, 2018 MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte is seeking more time to issue an executive order (EO) on contractualization, Malacañang said Thursday, after the chief executive met with labor groups calling for an end to the practice called “endo,” short for end of contract.

BY JORDEENE LAGARE, THE MANILA TIMES, Feb 8, 2018 AFTER two consecutive months of declines, electricity rates will go up by P1.08 per kilowatt hour (kWh) this February to account for higher generation charges, listed power distribution utility Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) said.

MANILA (Reuters) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a halt on the entry and creation of new casinos to prevent an oversupply in one of Asia’s fastest-growing gambling markets, the country’s gaming regulator said on Thursday.

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Women being offered domestic work in Saudi Arabia go to the labor department when they find Imad Housin Hamdan’s promises too good to be true by Aika Rey, Rappler, Feb 6, 2018 MANILA, Philippines – A Jordanian national was arrested in an entrapment operation for illegal recruitment, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced…

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(The Philippine Star), Feb 5, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Top business process outsourcing company Convergys Philippines, with its 60,000-strong workforce, became the first in its industry to gain international certification on workplace gender equality. It is also just the second company in the country to achieve it.

Aggrieved employees say ‘turnaround time’ is usually 2-3 months. However, there are those still waiting six months after completing turnover and other requirements. Employees twist in the wind, inquiring on their status week after week, thus impairing employees’ welfare and productivity. They are cruelly disadvantaged. Clearances are required either for employment or for regularisation with…

by Charlotte Edmond, Sep 4, 2017 Education may be the passport to the future, but for all the good teaching out there, it would seem that schools are failing to impart some of the most important life skills, according to one educational expert. Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group, argues that today’s…

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Feb 3, 2018 – HANJIN WORKER FALLS FROM LADDER FEET FIRST, AND DIES!!!??? What mysteries hide in Hanjin? A 23-year old male Hanjin worker in electrical installation climbed a ladder to remove an exhaust fan they had used while welding the light support in a pump room. He suddenly fell from the ladder (90 centimeters,…

by IVY JEAN S. TUPAS, Davao Today, Feb 3, 2018 DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Labor unions has condemned as “brazen acts” of the government military which they disclosed as having issued threats anew against union members.

by Julius N. Leonen, Inquirer, Feb 2, 2018 The average rate of families who fell victim to common crimes in the country declined to a “record-low” 6.1 percent in 2017, a nationwide Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey disclosed on Friday.

by JEROME ANING, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb 2, 2018 More than 6.6 million foreign tourists visited the country in 2017, an 11-percent rise from the previous year, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said on Thursday.

by JULIE M. AURELIO, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb 2, 2018 The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has prevented a total of 37,856 overseas-bound Filipinos and 2,300 foreigners from leaving the country in 2017 as part of its efforts to curb human trafficking.

by Beh Lih Yi, Feb 2, 2018 KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Inspired by the mobile game Pokemon Go, campaigners in the Philippines are using a smartphone app to send users to locations with condom dispensers in a bid to promote safe sex and break stigma to fight a worsening HIV epidemic.

By Jess Diaz and Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), Feb 1, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Leftist lawmakers opposed yesterday the plan of the Social Security System (SSS) to increase employees’ monthly premium contribution from 11 percent to 14 percent of their salary.

by Ben O. de Vera, Inquirer, Feb 1, 2018 Raising the contribution rate of Social Security System (SSS) members to 14 percent would make the pension fund for private workers at par with that of government employees, Social Security Commission chair Amado D. Valdez said Thursday.

by Jhoanna Ballaran, Inquirer, Feb 1, 2018 Labor groups trooped to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) office in Manila on Thursday to condemn the frequent fire incidents in factories and the “worsening” labor conditions in the country.

by Daxim L. Lucas, Inquirer, Feb 1, 2018 Monetary planners are keeping a careful watch on potential “second round” effects on the Duterte administration’s tax hikes that were implemented last month in a bid to keep prices of goods and services from rising more than they should, the country’s central bank chief said on Thursday.