Employment – Local

MANILA, Philippines—Amid the economic downturn, more people are hunting for jobs online, particularly through a site hosted by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE).

The Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (Dole-7) introduced on Tuesday another project that will give employment to registered nurses whose parents or siblings lost their jobs because of the global economic crisis.

Filipinos out of work have risen to 7.7 percent of the country’s available workforce and if the figure included those considered underemployed, about one in 10 Filipinos does not have a decent job, government data released yesterday showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Statistic Office (NSO) reported yesterday that there are now 2.855 million jobless Filipinos in January as the local unemployment rate increased to 7.7 percent owing to the global economic crisis.

IN AN EFFORT TO MITIGATE rising unemployment, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ralph G. Recto is pushing for the quick deployment of retrenched overseas Filipino workers to countries that are not as severely affected by the global financial crisis.

MANILA, Philippines – Fresh college graduates will have jobs to look forward to as the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced yesterday the availability of over 50,000 local jobs.

MANILA, Philippines – With the end of the school year, Cora Villanueva, human resources director of Shakey’s, is gearing up for the influx of job applications from recent graduates who will apply for vacant positions at Shakey’s, considered one of the country’s preferred employers.

PRESIDENT Arroyo has ordered the Department of Public Works and Highways to hasten the implementation of its emergency job creation program after only 20 percent or 100,000 of the available 500,000 jobs have been filled up in the past two months.

MANILA, Philippines – The Arroyo administration has increased by P1 billion the funding for the emergency employment program to provide more jobs for poor citizens, Malacañang reported yesterday.

The global crisis continued to take its toll on Filipinos, as the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced on Wednesday that as of this week, 40,191 workers have been laid off.

US-based outsourcing firm Accenture is laying off almost half its workforce in the Philippine because of the effects of the global financial crisis, the Labor department said on Tuesday.

Betty Reyes (not her real name), a single mother living in Pasig, stacked a collection of fliers and classified ads on her wobbly desk. While doing so, her son ate instant noodles and pandesal for breakfast. Nearly three months ago, she used to be call center agent working in Ortigas. But after an altercation with…

The government appears to be moving into high gear to create a million new jobs—its strategy to counter the impact of the global economic crisis on the Philippines.

Two departments have embarked on income-generating projects that will create 242,536 jobs in the countryside.

JAPANESE company Toshiba will invest P110 million and employ more than 600 workers in Laguna to expand its operation beyond the production of hard disk drives.

MANILA, Philippines – Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Lito Atienza said yesterday the DENR is budgeting P2.5 billion to create 111,536 “green collar” jobs as its contribution to President Arroyo’s Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program or CLEEP.

THE government will spend P82.79 billion on infrastructure within the first quarter to spur economic growth and create 900,000 jobs, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Some 500,000 jobs in various infrastructure projects all over the country will be available for workers, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

Malacañang admitted that the country could see massive job losses this year, but said that the administration is working hard to counter the problem by creating jobs locally despite the current economic crisis.

An official of the National Economic and Development Authority said unemployment rate in the Philippines will not hit a double-digit rate this year, despite the global economic slowdown that forced electronics companies to shed jobs.

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo has directed government agencies to set aside a portion of their maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) budget to fund the hiring of about 180,000 contractual workers nationwide to help reduce unemployment caused by the global economic crisis, officials said yesterday.

Expansion plans of most local privately held businesses are held back by the shortage of skilled workers, according to an international business report.

MANILA, Philippines – Local industries may find it hard to expand their businesses this year because of lack of skilled workers, high cost of finance and reduced demand, according to a report by Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) released by tax and business advisory firm Punongbayan & Araullo (P&A).

It seems that worrying about your next job isn’t just limited to private sector employees anymore. Once Executive Order 366 (E.O. 366) or the Rationalization Plan of the government is implemented around 420,000 government employees, or 30 percent of the workforce in the bureaucracy, will be laid off. The executive order was issued in October…

AS THOUSANDS of Filipinos face the prospect of being laid off due to the global financial crisis, President Arroyo has called for an intensified effort to place more workers overseas.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) yesterday said Malacañang will hold a multi-sectoral summit today aimed at saving jobs by helping industries cope with the impact of the global economic crisis, DoLE Secretary Marianito Roque said.

Although the government has allocated P100 million for a livelihood assistance fund for displaced overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to start their own business, not many OFWs want to avail themselves of this fund and become entrepreneurs.

MANILA, Philippines –Thousands of workers are being forced to take a leave of absence or put in shorter hours as the global recession begins to take its toll on local industries, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) said.

HONDA Motor Co. said yesterday it was imposing a 5-percent reduction in the salaries of its managers in Japan as well as those stationed overseas to cope with sliding sales.

JOBS at the special economic zones will rise 5 percent this year despite the global financial meltdown that has forced electronics makers, the Philippines’ top exporters, to cut down on production, an official said yesterday.