Employment – Local

A local waste and pollution watchdog yesterday urged the government to consider the creation of “green jobs” by expanding recycling programs.

Close to 50,000 jobs await returning workers displaced by the world economic crisis, the government said yesterday.

Labor Secretary Marianito Roque urged the Philippines’ Three Plus (3+) Social Partners, labor, management, government, industries, and other prominent sectors, to unite in enablinh the country ride out the global economic crisis, even as he bared that the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has allotted some P402.852 million to urgently assist the workers displaced…

The militant center for women, Gabriela National Alliance of Women expressed concern about the rising unemployment rate among women, saying 70 percent of the laid-off workers are women in their productive years.

Infra spending to ease demand woes–Citigroup   Nearly half-a-million Filipinos could lose their jobs, according to Citigroup. In a report, the US financial services giant said Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to grow 3 percent this year and recover to 4.6 percent next year. A proxy for a country’s economic output, GDP measures…

The national government should create an employment hotline for those affected by the global economic crisis, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said on Wednesday.

Government’s anti-hunger program has allowed new job opportunities for nearly 1.4 million unemployed or underemployed poor folk last year, the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) announced recently.

Samsung Electronic Philippines Corp.  and Berthaphil Business Park signed recently an agreement for the establishment of Samsung’s  central distribution center inside the 2,300-hectare Clark Civil Aviation Complex.

PMAP says 60% of surveyed firms eye hiring MANILA, Philippines — Results of a survey by the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) in the third and fourth weeks of January show that the employment situation “is not uniformly dismal” at least among the survey respondents, the group of human resource executives said in…

Hundreds of people in the country are losing their jobs everyday as the global economy slows, Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said yesterday

I’ve known for a long time now that there is a gaping mismatch between what the academe produces and what industry needs. I’ve written about it many times in the past as well.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday that fewer workers sought extra jobs last year despite the prevailing global economic crisis.

Nearly five in 10 Filipinos are afraid of losing jobs this year because of the global financial crisis, an international research firm reported.

The government eyes to create one million jobs in the first half of 2009 as part of its emergency measures against the global economic crisis, the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) announced Tuesday.

ILIGAN CITY – President Arroyo has ordered the expansion of the administration’s emergency employment and livelihood program to create at least one million jobs for the poor by July.

MALOLOS CITY – Bulacan’s pyrotechnics industry is feeling the hard times as production costs continue to grow and the government intensifies its drive against the use of powerful firecrackers.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday warned of a record high unemployment rate in the coming year due to the prevailing global economic crisis.

Despite the prevailing global economic crisis, jobless Filipinos are now fewer, preliminary data from the National Statistics Office (NSO) showed.

LABOR officials are on the alert for the adverse effects of the global financial meltdown on jobs—here and abroad.

Only 500,000 new jobs are expected to be created next year, half of the usual one million new employment opportunities generated each year, the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) said.

Over P35 billion in loans have been extended to various micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in 2007, generating nearly half a million new jobs, Malacañang said yesterday.

Govt realigns 2006 savings to fund antipoverty programs ALMOST eleven thousand new jobs are created by the ongoing projects of the Luzon Urban Beltway (LUB), a government official said Wednesday.

A provincial board member would like to see leaders of towns and cities assist residents find work by putting up Public Employment and Service Offices in their respective areas.

Filipinos worried about a looming crisis in public health care may find some comfort in the fact that the problem is global. The World Health Organization is dedicating the 56th World Health Day today to what it describes as “a growing health workforce crisis” in many parts of the world.