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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…

by Callum Brodie, Jun 1, 2017 Swiss voters have come out in favour of swapping nuclear power for renewable energy, despite warnings the transition will lead to a hike in household bills.

Hundreds of AI experts predict when their models will beat humans at everything. By Liam Tung | June 1, 2017 Google has hung up its AlphaGo gloves after trouncing the world’s best human Go players, but when will AI beat humans at other tasks, such as writing a best-selling novel or doing surgery?

by Ceri Parker, June 2, 2017 Women work an average of 8 hours and 39 minutes a day – nearly an hour longer than men, when both paid and unpaid tasks are taken into account.

By ANGELA CELIS, Malaya, Jun 1, 2017 Assuming it could be achieved , the Philippines’ revenue collection target of P1.83 trillion — “quite steep” by standards — will still be moderate when compared to those generated by other Southeast Asian economies.

by Anna Felicia Bajo/BAP, GMA News, Jun 1, 2017 Four minors were rescued from an online child pornography syndicate in Iligan City. According to a report by GMA News’ Mariz Umali on “State of the Nation with Jessica Soho” on Thursday, one of the victims is a two-year-old child of one of the suspects.

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), Jun 1, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Strong economic performance has propelled the Philippines to a notch higher or to 41st spot in this year’s World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) rankings of the International Institute of Management Development (IMD).

by FEDERICO CRUZ, MANILA BULLETIN, Jun 1, 2017 Filipino children have seen far worse childhood than their counterparts in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. A global report by child rights advocate Save the Children brought forth this disturbing news.

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by Santiago Castagnino, Michael Buehler, Ibrahim S Odeh, May 31, 2017 According to the US National Association of Homebuilders, 82% of construction companies consider their main concern to be a shortage of construction workers. Sure enough, figures show that the average age of the workforce is rising faster than ever: the UK Chartered Institute of…

by Thaddeus Metz, May 31, 2017 On the face of it, there are many situations in which doing something that makes us happier fails to make our lives more meaningful. Some recent examples from my life include: having taken a gloriously hot shower, watched several episodes of the HBO comedy series “Veep” while eating chocolate…