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By Leo Jaymar G. Uy, Senior Researcher, Businessworld, Jun 10, 2017 LATEST data show an improvement in the number and quality of jobs as unemployment and underemployment both eased in April, the government’s statistical agency reported on Friday.

by Murray Goulden, Jun 9, 2017 A father finds out his daughter is pregnant after algorithms identify tell-tale patterns in the family’s store card data. Police charge suspects in two separate murder cases based on evidence taken from a Fitbit tracker and a smart water meter. A man sues Uber for revealing his affair to…

By Danessa Rivera (The Philippine Star), Jun 9, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines still has much leg room to improve on energy efficiency to fare better in achieving sustainable energy goals, a global indicator listing by the World Bank showed.

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 09, 2017 The Philippines has become a more attractive destination of prospective foreign direct investments, placing seventh in a list of economies tagged as “most promising host countries,” the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) 2017 business survey showed.

BY MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO, TMT, Manila Times, Jun 9, 2017 Still a favored recipient of fdi The Philippines remains a promising host country for multinational enterprises (MNEs) for 2017 to 2019, according to a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) report.

By RIE TAKUMI, GMA News, Jun 9, 2017 The government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the private and labor sectors providing them access to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administrations’ databases containing information related to illegal recruitment.

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By Deena Fidas, The Daily Dose, Jun 8, 2017 OZY and JPMorgan Chase have partnered to bring you an inside look at how entrepreneurs and their businesses are helping the communities around them. Enjoy the rest of our special series here. Deena Fidas is the director of the Human Rights Campaign’s Workplace Equality Program.

Stuart Appelbaum, President Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, www.rwdsu.org | 6/8/2017 Working in retail in New York City can be a tough way to make a living. Low wages and insufficient hours can make it a struggle just to get by. And, until now, retail workers have faced the brutal practice known as on-call…

by Joel Guinto, ABS-CBN News, Jun 7, 2017 MANILA – Companies seeking to cut costs may be tempted to downscale their call center operations in favor of artificial intelligence, but it’s the human touch that secures customer loyalty, making the business more profitable in the long run, an outsourcing industry leader said Wednesday.

By Samuel Medenilla, Manila Bulletin, Jun 7, 2017 To strengthen the protection of household service workers (HSW) deployed abroad, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and its attached agencies signed on Tuesday a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Philippine Recruitment Agencies (PRA).

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), Jun 7, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Employers have expressed reservations over a bill seeking to increase the service incentive leave of employees, but aired support for another bill proposing to increase the normal work hours per day under the compressed work week scheme.

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Good ergonomics is essential to a productive and healthy workforce. Here are 10 easy-to-implement tips that will help optimize workstation ergonomics. By Mark Kaelin | June 6, 2017 A safe and healthy work environment is a productive work environment. All enterprises, regardless of their size or the nature of their business, should strive to create…

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 6, 2017 Netizens in the Philippines spend the most time online among select Southeast Asian countries, with Filipinos “far more forgiving of poorly performing website experiences,” according to a survey by a global content delivery network services.

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by Ferdinand G. Patinio/PNA), Jun 5, 2017 MANILA, June 5 — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has recommended the revocation of the certificates of compliance with the general labor standards and occupational safety and health standards (OSHS) of the House Technology Industries (HTI) and its contractors over the fire that gutted the electronics…

by David KosbieAndrew W. MooreMark Stehlik, Jun 5, 2017 Most of us regard self-driving cars, voice assistants, and other artificially intelligent technologies as revolutionary. For the next generation, however, these wonders will have always existed. AI for them will be more than a tool; in many cases, AI will be their co-worker and a ubiquitous…

The Department of Labor and Employment says House Technology Industries violated labor and safety standards, contrary to the findings of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority by Patty Pasion, Rappler, Jun 5, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Results of a probe conducted by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) found House Technology Industries (HTI), the company…

K-12 BASIC REFORM PROGRAM By: Jocelyn R. Uy, Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 05, 2017 Krisha Ciasico grew up attending public schools, where classrooms were always filled to the brim and computers had to be shared with a classmate or two.

https://www.axios.com/experts-predict-ai-machines-will-soon-become-to-superior-to-humans-2429612829.html There’s a 50% chance AI machines will accomplish virtually every task better and more cheaply than human workers in the next 45 years, and once that is achieved, AI systems will rapidly become superior to humans, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Oxford and Yale.

By Celso Amo (The Philippine Star), Jun 4, 2017 LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines – A construction worker was decapitated after he fell from a scaffolding in Malabog, Albay on Saturday.

by Michelle Jamrisko, Jun 2, 2017 Tariffs on U.S. carbon emitters could overshadow any benefits Trump says pullout spares jobs, ‘draconian’ economic burdens President Donald Trump argued that leaving the Paris climate accord would save jobs at home, yet possible trade wars sparked by his decision could nullify any additional benefit to American workers.

by Paul Muggeridge, Aug 11, 2015 Japan has restarted its first nuclear reactor since the Fukushima disaster of 2011. The number one reactor at Sendai Nuclear Power Plant was brought back online under stringent new safety guidelines – the cost of these new safety systems exceeded US$100m at Sendai alone.

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by Rachel Cooper, Jun 1, 2017 If you invest in a girl, she becomes a woman and she invests in everyone else.” Melinda Gates delivered this call to action from the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in April 2017. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim echoed her sentiments.

by Rachel Cooper, Jun 1, 2017 If you invest in a girl, she becomes a woman and she invests in everyone else.” Melinda Gates delivered this call to action from the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in April 2017. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim echoed her sentiments.

The Paris agreement China and Europe plan to lead climate efforts Jun 1st 2017 goo.gl/swSG1rcontent_copy IN THE end, not even the pope’s pleas were enough to persuade Donald Trump to go back on his campaign promise to leave the Paris agreement. The arguments of his advisers, such as strategist Steve Bannon and the head of…