Employment – International

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelwells/2024/07/21/top-5-remote-jobs-with-up-to-975-surge-in-demand-in-2024/

https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/nearly-a-third-of-jobs-negatively-exposed-to-ai-while-women-and-younger-workers-face-biggest-risk-department-of-finance-report-finds/a1560208605.html

Filipino workers seen most at risk of AI takeover in Asean

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by Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News, Apr 06 2019 MANILA – For the past 5 years, Alan Petil, 36, has been working as a construction worker, enduring the Philippines’ intense outdoor heat and humidity. He earns roughly P4,000 a week depending on a project, which is relatively small for someone on a tough job with…

By Heather SCOTT, Jan 9, 2019 Trade conflict between the world’s two largest economic powers already is inflicting collateral damage and threatens to do yet more harm to the global economy, the World Bank warned Tuesday.

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By John Mangun, Business Mirror, Aug 15, 2018 Earthquakes can create disasters, which have plagued civilizations from earliest times. The first recorded tremor happened in 1831 BC in China’s Shandong province.

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by Lianna Brinded, Mar 27, 2017 Companies across the globe are starting to ramp up their hiring after a year of political uncertainty and upheaval. Over the last year, Britain voted to leave the European Union, Donald Trump became the new US President, and populism has been spreading across Europe. It has caused great uncertainty…

Written by Maurice Obstfeld, Jan. 16, 2017 An accumulation of recent data suggests that the global economic landscape started to shift in the second half of 2016. Developments since last summer indicate somewhat greater growth momentum coming into the new year in a number of important economies. Our earlier projection, that world growth will pick…

Written by Joe Myers, 29 February 2016, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/02/these-scientists-have-predicted-which-jobs-will-be-human-only-in-2035?utm_content=buffer71981&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer By 2035, workplace changes will see us looking for jobs as remote pilots or online chaperones.

29 June 2015, Manila –Some 100 union leaders (40% women), representing 18 national labor federations and 30 enterprise-based unions participated in the two-day national conference on employment security and constructive industrial relations. Supported by the Japan International Labor Foundation (JILAF), the two-day program aimed to contribute to the promotion of equitable growth and decent work…

It’s often said that Indian Railways is the largest employer of people in the world, and if not Indian Railways, then the UK’s National Health Service.

Leaders’ Summit marked by concern that economies might continue to suffer slow growth and recognition that concerted action is needed to make progress on jobs which remain at the centre of public concern.

More than 5 years of experience would be required before an architect or engineer can work in other Southeast Asian countries MANILA, Philippines – Newly licensed Filipino engineers and architects need years of experience first before they could find a job in other Southeast Asian countries once the regional economic bloc integrates next year.

Small businesses and startups have historically created the bulk of America’s jobs. Here’s how to get them hiring more again. FORTUNE — Despite the strong monthly U.S. jobs report released last week, it’s likely too soon to cheer the positive numbers. In recent years, the number of jobs created has been anything but choppy; for…

AFP News – This file photo shows a group of Filipino domestic workers collecting their luggage from a carousel at Manila airport, on August 15, 2006. The Philippines is to resume sending workers to Israel as …more If you’re planning to work abroad, you might want to keep an eye out for job openings in…

MANILA – If you’re an engineer or a doctor, then your profession is among the list of highest paying jobs abroad. According to JobStreet.com’s Salary Report for Overseas Jobs, oil and gas engineers in the managerial level are the highest paid workers abroad, earning an average of P186,000 per month.

SINGAPORE — Bapari Jakir’s employers wanted to see him off the job, but the welder was heavily in debt and didn’t want to go back to Bangladesh. So, he says, they encouraged him to leave — by hiring a company whose thugs held him captive in a room, holding a knife to his throat.

MANILA – Construction workers are in high demand in Singapore amid a construction boom in the city state. A Singapore-based building and construction company has already set up a training center in the Philippines to help fill the 200 construction jobs needed every month.

MANILA, Philippines – Almost immediately after coming home from the United Arab Emirates, OFW Rey Salarda is already applying for another job abroad. “Yung kikitain mo kasi doon talagang hindi mo makukumpara dito, mas malaki,” he said.

Global labour markets still stalled despite slow economic recovery, according to the ILO’s Global Employment Trends 2014 report, which calls for an urgent switch to more employment-friendly policies.

MANILA – Thousands of jobs are waiting for Filipino workers in Canada. Among the jobs up for grabs are for engineers, architects, teachers, and healthcare professionals.

MANILA, Philippines – Job opportunities await many Filipinos planning to work in Canada with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Canadian government.

A MEMBER of the Legislative Council of St. Petersburg, Russia urged Filipinos to seek employment in their place as there are more than 8,000 vacancies for those in the medical field and around 1,000 in the construction and social sectors.