Employment – Local

The government sees a robust Philippine economy despite the global financial crisis, as housing, food, tourism and business process outsourcing (BPO) industries “remain to be resilient,” a Palace official said Tuesday.

JOB losses as a result of the global economic meltdown have begun tapering off, with some 14,000 workers retrenched in the first quarter regaining employment in companies that are beginning to recover, an official said yesterday.

SIXTY-TWO companies in the various economic zones are back in the hiring mode and will be employing 4,902 workers within the month, according to Lilia de Lima, director-general of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority.

The number of Filipinos without jobs is likely to worsen until 2010 as the domestic economy is seen to grow at a slower pace because of declining demand for export products, the World Bank warned on Tuesday.

The government provided 75,000 jobs for unemployed Filipinos during the first quarter of the year under the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP), an official said Monday.

Labor Day is happening in a few weeks’ time. And because we are a country that unfortunately has this habit of making grand, dramatic— sometimes, token—actions to coincide with special occasions instead of putting in place programs that are sustainable and that produce lasting results, government has been quite busy putting together its annual package…

The effects of the global crisis on the employment of Filipino workers have bottomed out as displacements due to the crisis stood still with the return to their regular jobs of some 14,021 temporarily laid off workers and those under flexible work arrangements in 53 firms, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today said.

MANILA, Philippines – A top labor recruiter identified yesterday nurses and hotel workers as the most “unemployable” or those likely to end up jobless.

MOST companies are laying off workers, but consumer products giant Procter & Gamble is still hiring, buoyed by steady sales even in the midst of a slowing economy.

Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Fourteenth Congress Second Regular Session  Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of July, two thousand eight. Republic Act No. 9547             April 1, 2009 AN ACT STRENGTHENING AND EXPANDING THE COVERAGE OF THE SPECIAL PROGRAM…

Over 14,000 Filipino workers who were temporarily laid off and those hit by the flexible working hours as an effect of the global financial crisis have now gone back to regular employment, the Department of Labor and Employment said in a statement Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – Workers nationwide can look forward to better days, the Department of Labor and Employment said yesterday.

CLARK – Over 121,000 Filipino workers have either lost their jobs or suffered pay cuts or reduced work loads because of the economic crisis, a government official said Sunday.

12,000 overseas workers laid off–Labor official The economic crisis has cost over 121,000 Filipino workers their jobs, pay cuts or reduced work loads, a government official said on Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – Lots of jobs and other incentives await workers on Labor Day.

SAN JUAN, Batangas—The government will spend P100 million to shoulder half the minimum wage of thousands of workers who would otherwise be laid off by the electronics industry as a stopgap measure to prevent further job losses, President Arroyo said yesterday.

ROSARIO, CAVITE – While dozens of workers are losing jobs at the Cavite Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), hundreds are going to be hired soon as more investors are coming in, according to CEZA authorities.

There will be at least 350,000 new graduates of Philippine colleges and universities this year. Not all will find jobs in the field they have earned diplomas in.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Mar Roxas announce today in a press statement that he is setting up camps nationwide that would help fresh graduates seek employment.

MANILA, Philippines – Despite the global financial crunch, job opportunities in Clark freeport zone continue to expand as 3,000 new jobs are about to open after four new lease agreements were signed recently.

There is good news in the offshoring and outsourcing (O&O) industry for 2009 but companies and parents/schools need to wake-up to cultural challenges and career opportunities present in the industry.

ABOUT 3,000 jobs will be created with the P20-billion worth of investments in the tourism industry this year, the Department of Tourism (DoT) has said.

MANILA, Philippines — Exporters based in the Northern Mindanao region will maintain their employee numbers despite significant decline in sales, according to a survey by the Confederation of Philippine Exporters Foundation Region 10 Inc.

Before job-hunting abroad CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines—Nursing board topnotcher Rosario Pasimio admits she’s looking forward to an overseas posting to help her family. But for now, she will serve as a nurse in the Philippine countryside.

BALER, Aurora, Philippines – Nine Chinese nationals and two Filipinos were arrested by police after they were caught illegally hauling quarry sources along the coast in Casiguran, Aurora, police reported yesterday.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today debunked criticisms that its conduct of job fairs is just a plain show or gimmick, saying that it, in fact, solicited a total of 1.34 million job vacancies from January to November last year.

MANILA, Philippines – Don’t be choosy, take the emergency job.

MANILA, Philippines — In a bid to boost foreign investments in the country amid the global economic crisis, the Bureau of Immigration has begun implementing an indefinite visa program that would allow foreign investors and businessmen who employ at least 10 Filipino workers to stay in the Philippines.

THE Cebu provincial government is coming up with an employment scheme that would allow laborers to work on government projects on a “pakyaw” (paid per project) basis.

Have you been laid off recently because of your age? Lay-offs are an unfortunate event that come with little or no notice and are out of your control. Experiencing a lay-off is much like being the victim in an accident, or a victim of a crime; we are deeply affected, and yet there is little…