Employment – Local

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), December 3, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Duterte administration will embark on an ambitious employment generation program to create 7.2 million new jobs until 2022, surpassing those achieved by the two previous administrations.

Rex Ruta, ABS-CBN News, Aug 01 2016 PALAWAN – Workers from suspended mining companies in Palawan are still waiting for the decision of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) if the suspension on mining operations will stay. Workers have claimed thousands of mine workers are affected by the suspension.

By Lourdes O. Pilar, Senior Research Associate, Businessworld, http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=TopStory&title=april-job-situation-better-than-a-year-ago&id=128786 THE RANKS of the jobless shrank last quarter from a year ago, as employment increased in the sectors of the economy that fueled growth in that period.

By Gerardo P. Sicat (The Philippine Star), June 22, 2016, http://www.philstar.com/business/2016/06/22/1595265/options-improve-labor-market-policies-and-mulitply-good-jobs-part-ii In last week’s column, I presented the discouraging aspects of employment generation in the country using a recent World Bank analysis of the problem.

(UPDATED) The jobs available are not meeting the aspirations of Filipino youth entering the labor market, says World Bank lead economist Jan Rutkowski Mara Cepeda @maracepeda, June 17, 2016, http://www.rappler.com/nation/136750-filipinos-jobs-remain-poor-world-bank?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=referral

by Bruce N. Pfau, APRIL 07, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/04/what-do-millennials-really-want-at-work?utm_campaign=harvardbiz&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social Saturday Night Live recently featured a sketch poking fun at Millennials. It opens with a young woman frantically texting on her iPhone, approaching her boss and asking for a promotion. The boss asks how long she’s been with the company. She replies, “Three days.”

Filipinos, especially first-time workers, may be getting hard to please in terms of the jobs they apply for. At the official launch of the Human Development Report on Monday, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said that this is one of the reasons the Phil-JobNet’s job vacancies have accumulated to whopping 6.18 million openings as of the…

IF the trend in online hiring is to be used as basis, the country is still far from solving its problem on job-skill mismatch, a phenomenon that the government and private sector already noticed and sought to address since the early 2000s.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino signed into law yesterday the bill amending the Public Employment Service Act of 1999 to further help people in rural areas secure jobs more easily.

Job fairs, more vocational courses, career guidance and skills matching, among other services offered by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), have made it possible for close to 8 million Filipinos to find jobs over the past five years, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said.

Statement of Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz On the 2015 April Labor Force Survey [Released on June 9, 2015] I am pleased to note that the result of the 2015 April Labor Force Survey validates our optimism on the country’s overall employment situation. I further note that these results sustain the gains in decent work and Millennium…

The highest numbers of job openings in Metro Manila last year were for cashiers, sales personnel and accountants, with lawyers entering the top-10 list for the first time.

MANILA, Philippines – More college graduates are taking licensure examinations in order to practice their professions. Data from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)’s Current Labor Statistics showed that the number of examinees for licensure examinations went up to 444,628 in 2014 from 379,584 in 2013 and 401,827 in 2012. The number of board…

MANILA – The International Labor Organization (ILO) has recommended to the Philippine government to focus on the creation of decent and productive jobs in order to foster inclusive growth.

Statement of Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz On the International Labor Organization’s Philippine Employment Trends 2015 report [Released on April 22, 2015] I welcome the report of the International Labor Organization’s Philippine Employment Trends 2015 report that seeks to take stock of progress and developments towards our economic, including employment, targets. The report, in particular, shows that…

MANILA, Philippines–The government has earmarked P30.8 billion for the hiring of personnel to fill almost 87,000 vacant positions this year, according to the Department of Budget and Management. In a statement on Monday, the DBM said the funding shall come from the miscellaneous personnel benefits fund in the 2015 national budget. Citing the staffing summary…

MANILA, Philippines – Congressmen yesterday urged the government to fill nearly 190,000 vacant positions in the entire bureaucracy. Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano lll said filling these jobs would reduce the number of jobless college graduates in the country. He said as far as he knew, the House of Representatives and the Senate had included funds…

MANILA, Philippines – Over half a million college graduates are expected to join the labor force at the end of the academic year.

The IT industry has the highest paying first salaries for fresh grads, according to Annual Salary Report of Jobstreet Philippines MANILA, Philippines – It’s graduation season, and after the caps fly and the diplomas are filed, it’s time to plunge into the working world with one’s first job. (READ: Fresh grads: Do employers care about…

Statement of Secretary of Labor and Employment Rosalinda Baldoz On the results of the January 2015 Labor Force Survey [Released on March 12, 2015] The results of the January 2015 Labor Force Survey of the Philippine Statistics Authority encourage us greatly at the Department of Labor and Employment to continue to strengthen our various employment…

Partnership opens up employment opportunities with Japanese companies in PH, says Baldoz MANILA, Philippines—Hallo Hallo, Inc., a Japanese-owned online job vacancy list and company index provider in the Philippines, recently became the newest partner of the Department of Labor and Employment in providing career and employment opportunities for job seekers and in facilitating employers’ search…

At least 13,000 jobs are now up for grabs for those seeking employment this new year in the government’s online job search website, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said the latest employment figures translated to better quality jobs with around 1.03 million of the total employment generated in October 2014.

MANILA, Philippines–Despite the country’s impressive economic growth, which averaged 5.4 percent a year during the past decade, the overall labor market scenario has been “less positive,” limiting progress on social development and inclusive growth, a joint study by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Asian Development Bank said.

MANILA – While the Philippines could get a net 3 million jobs as Southeast Asian nations relax trade and other rules to form the ASEAN Economic Community, more than a third of them could be “vulnerable jobs,” the International Labor Organization (ILO) said.

MANILA – An estimated 3.1 million jobs may be added to the Philippine labor market from ASEAN integration, a study shows. The study, titled “ASEAN Community 2015: Managing integration for better jobs and shared prosperity,” revealed that demand for high-skilled employment such as managers, professionals, technicians and associate professionals could increase by nearly 60 percent…

Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary Adrian Cristobal Jr. urged stakeholders to support the Philippine’s strategy to strengthen trade and investment relations with Europe. Speaking before stakeholders in a series of consultations held this week, Cristobal said, “We need to deepen our relationship with the EU and make it more meaningful for both economies.

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MANILA—Jobs growth in all major sectors of the economy pushed total employment to 38.7 million in April 2014, a 4.5-percent increase from 37.0 million a year ago, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). This growth translated into 1.7 million additional employed persons in April 2014 from the same period last year. Thus,…

From the National Economic and Development Authority Job growth in all major sectors of the economy pushed the total employment to 38.7 million people in April 2014, a 4.5% increase from 37.0 million a year ago, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).