By BusinessMirror, 2 Dec 2019 The Duterte administration’s record spending on human capital development is meant to gear up young Filipinos for the country’s “demographic sweet spot,” Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said.
By: Glenn San Luis, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2 Dec 2019 DAYLONG COURSES Graduates discover for themselves the benefits of intensive, interactive learning. Whenever younger professionals ask me what further studies they should take, I used to answer that it depends on their career goals. Ten years ago, I would have automatically responded that an MBA…
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by Agence France-Presse, May 5, 2019 SINGAPORE, Singapore — Singapore has attracted high-tech manufacturers with incentives and a well-educated workforce but growing demands for highly skilled labor and government moves to curb numbers of foreign workers may mean a tougher path ahead.
By Leslie Ann Aquino, Manila Bulletin, Apr 28, 2019 Filipinos better upgrade their skills if they want to keep in step with foreign nationals similarly eyeing jobs that could be theirs for the taking.
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by Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News, Apr 06 2019 MANILA – For the past 5 years, Alan Petil, 36, has been working as a construction worker, enduring the Philippines’ intense outdoor heat and humidity. He earns roughly P4,000 a week depending on a project, which is relatively small for someone on a tough job with…
by Jarius Bondoc, The Philippine Star, Feb 20, 2019 What has TESDA been doing all these years? That question was first in everyone’s mind when President Duterte talked about a shortage of skilled workers. The role of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority is to produce not only able but also apt workers. That…
By: Daphne Galvez, INQUIRER.net, Feb 19, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Students from public and private high schools across the country may now decide on their college courses more easily.
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by Gillian M. Cortez, BusinessWorld, Jan 2, 2019 THE labor department said equipping workers with data sciences and analytics (DSA) skills will be a good way of preparing enterprises for eventual automation, according to the findings of the JobsFit 2022 report prepared by one of its agencies.
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The Philippine Business for Education also calls on more companies to offer internships to senior high school students so that employers themselves can become familiar with the students’ skills by Sofia Tomacruz, Aug 19, 2018 MANILA, Philippines – Students in senior high school should undergo training or get work experience if they wish to proceed…
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By Cai Ordinario, Businessmirror, Apr 30, 2018 The country’s business-process outsourcing (BPO) sector should not fear the havoc that would be wreaked by automation on millions of Filipinos working in call centers, according to local and international experts.
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14 March 2018 https://www.etui.org/ReformsWatch/Sweden/Sweden-arrangement-on-new-employment-model-for-labour-market-entrants Based on an earlier deal between the social partners, the government and representatives of employees and employers have agreed on a new system of ‘entry agreements’. The aim is to help newly arrived immigrants and long-term unemployed people to become established in the labour market, and to facilitate future skills provision for…
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World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos
Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
