Employment – Local

MANILA, Philippines – The government is re-opening its door for the hiring of new workers despite the planned rationalization program, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines—Illegal recruiters have been “gate-crashing” job fairs and hiring job seekers on the spot, Pasay City Mayor Peewee Trinidad warned the public on Wednesday.

Convenience in government processes as a come-on to investors to bring in foreign capital takes center stage in the new visa offered by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) to which the business sector responded by giving employment to almost 20,000 Filipinos.

MANILA, Philippines – Jobs abound in the country, but there are only few takers. Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano said tourism-related companies and other commercial establishments nationwide are offering so many jobs, but only few are applying.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is promoting its Special Visa Employment Generation (SVEG) by setting up a field office in the resort island of Boracay in Aklan.

RECORD-HIGH unemployment among Filipino adults is rising, from 11 million to 14 million in the first quarter of this year.

In the light of the results of the 2009 first quarter Social Weather Stations (SWS), the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) clarified the official definition of unemployment as used in the Labor Force Survey (LFS) which is conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO), which should be considered when conducting surveys.

The government has its count of how many jobless Filipinos there are. The IBON Foundation disputes these figures as an “underestimation.” In the foundation’s writings some malice is hinted at.

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The government on Wed­nesday said that the figures presented by the latest Social Wea­ther Stations (SWS) survey, which claimed 14 million Filipinos were without jobs, may not have met international standards considering the very small number of respondents it interviewed.

MANILA, Philippines – US-based Texas Instruments (TI) said its newly opened Clark facility will employ 3,000 workers and is expected to double the firm’s capacity in the region.

Govt sees end of global crisis for Philippines   The government admitted that unemployment figures were growing, with its data showing that jobless Filipinos numbered about 14 million in the first three months of 2009.

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Like most people around the world, the Filipinos’ main worry these days was about jobs because of the global economic crisis, the marketing researched firm Nielsen Co. reported Friday.

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The government’s JOBapalooza ’09 job fair attracted thousands of job applicants in Metro Manila and in major cities in Mindanao on Friday. The country-wide job fair offered over 200,000 jobs in construction, business process outsourcing, engineering and overseas work. Majority were overseas jobs.

MANILA, Philippines – Around 30,000 jobseekers flocked to the Labor Day job fair, said to be the biggest in history, held yesterday at the SMX Convention Center at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City, as the government announced a package of non-wage benefits for workers to help them cope with the prevailing global financial…

After a grueling day at the JOBapalooza ’09, where throngs of workers are expected to converge for the job and livelihood fairs highlighting this year’s Labor Day commemoration, a special concert is set to entertain workers and their families to cap the day’s celebration.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today said that some 250,000 local and overseas jobs will be offered to graduates, new entrants to the labor force, and other workers especially those who were affected by the global crisis at May 1 Jobapalooza ’09 job fair marking the Labor Day celebrations in 16 regions nationwide.

More and more new graduates and jobseekers are riding on the wave of opportunity by registering with the country’s biggest jobs fair dubbed “Tayo Na! Trabaho Na! JOBapalooza ’09” as Labor Day approaches, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today reported.

EMPLOYMENT in Philippine industries in the fourth quarter of last year dropped at its fastest pace since the third quarter of 2007, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said Thursday.

The Philippines has been spared so far from the global crisis, as evidenced by an increase in employment rate of 1.7 percent from January to mid-April, when 500,000 new jobs were created, an official reported Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of the country’s tourism jobs is evidently growing as can be seen from the unexpectedly big increase in the number of employers joining this year’s Trabaho sa Turismo (TST) Manila fair.

MANILA, Philippines – Government agencies have been providing limited jobs to persons with disabilities (PWD) despite existing laws mandating them to allocate five percent of all casual, emergency and contractual positions for PWDs, according to various non-government organizations.

MANILA, Philippines – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its growth projection for the country for this year from 2.25 percent to zero, with remittances from overseas Filipinos actually declining by 7.1 percent.

Some 6,000 Filipinos have found new jobs from March to the middle of April this year under the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP) of the government, according to the National Anti-Poverty Commission.

MANILA, Philippines – High school and college students can now look forward to employment in government and private companies even before they graduate.

MANILA, Philippines – An educator-turned-lawmaker has hailed the passage of a new law aggressively expanding a government-subsidized student jobs plan, saying it would help put in check rising youth unemployment.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang claimed yesterday that job losses have started to taper off now that businesses are starting to recover from the effects of the global financial slowdown.

MORE Filipinos are poised to lose their jobs as the government is set to cut anew its economic growth target for this year, according to pundits.