Youth

MANILA, Philippines – Young people across Southeast Asia, including those in the Philippines, may find it harder to get jobs in the years to come. In a paper titled Global Employment Outlook: Bleak Labour Market Prospects for Youth, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said this will be due to spillovers from the euro crisis that…

(Reuters) – Unemployment among young people is likely to rise globally as the euro crisis hits emerging economies and more discouraged jobless youth drop out of the labour force altogether, the International Labour Organization said on Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – As senators continue to deliberate whether to pass or not the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Bill, a group of experts urged legislators to consider the stake of the youth in the debate. In a roundtable discussion among experts from the fields of education, adolescent health, law, demography and social sciences on August…

Finally, someone high up in government has raised the alarm about the rise of on-the-job training (OJT) requirements as a cover for unpaid or underpaid labor. Vice President Jejomar Binay has rightly called our attention to a phenomenon that opens the door to the exploitation of Filipino students. Abroad, such internships have been called the…

International Youth Day – marked on August 12 – sets the spotlight on the pressing challenges faced by young people. ILO News looks at practices that can help turn around the dramatic youth employment situation. GENEVA (ILO News) – Promoting youth employment has become a top priority for many governments at a time when 75…

17 July 2012 – The United Nations is providing training for young people to become entrepreneurs in the Philippines as a way to reduce poverty and stop the labour force from migrating to other countries.

MANILA, Philippines- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved on Tuesday a $350-million loan to help the Philippines in policy reforms aimed at developing skills among out-of-school youth.

DAVAO CITY—Unlike developed economies, the Philippines has a current and definite advantage: a steady supply of a young work force capable of sustaining its economic growth, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said.

THE International Labor Organization (ILO) on Wednesday said  lingering jobs crisis have increased the vulnerability of youth in the Philippines alongside poorer states of Bangladesh and Ghana where many households have to resort to selling possessions and borrowing from friends due to erratic wages.

Youth joblessness is almost back at its peak following the outbreak of the global economic crisis and is unlikely to ease until at least 2016, the International Labour Organization warned Tuesday. The ILO said nearly 75 million youths or 12.7 percent of people aged 15 to 24 will be out of work this year, up…

Manila (ILO News) – Young Filipino leaders raised concerns on youth unemployment and migration, access to information, education and training, protection and promotion of workers’ rights in a recent youth employment forum held in Manila. The forum joined by over a hundred youth, was an opportunity to review the draft National Action Plan for Youth…

Young people from Maguindanao often leave their hometown to work in Manila, urban areas, or overseas due to limited opportunities. Maguindanao, a province in South Central Mindanao was the 6th poorest province in the Philippines in 2011 based on findings of the National Statistical Coordination Board. The unemployment rate of youth belonging to 20-24 year…

A research firm shows a big concern on the employment of Filipinos, particularly the youth, which are the most affected segment of the population by the global financial crisis and availability of jobs.

MANILA, Philippines – Some 2.3 million young Filipinos were in vulnerable forms of employment in 2010, the International Labour Organization said.

There were more than 1.5 million unemployed Filipinos between the ages of 15 and 24 last year, the International Labour Organization said Wednesday, prompting the Geneva, Switzerland-based labor institution and the Philippines to forge a strategic approach to the problem.

Country plans to prepare young people to be strong workers locally and abroad Manila: The Philippine government will work for improved safety nets for Filipinos working abroad, one strategy that observers said will help mitigate youth unemployment in the Philippines, sources said.

ILO News, 29 March 2012 – Over a hundred youth leaders and representatives met with government agency officials, workers and employers group, academe, and civil society organizations in a youth employment forum dubbed, “Kahit Saan, Kahit Kailan: Marangal na Trabaho para sa Kabataan Matatagpuan (Any Time, Any Where: Decent Work for Young Filipinos).” The event…

COMPANIES that are able to understand and connect with Filipino teens and young adults are the most successful top-of-mind brands for these high-value segments, key findings of “The TRU Study: 2012 Philippines Edition” revealed.

Out of school children and youth may have the chance to go back to school by passing the 2012 Philippine Educational Placement Test (PEPT), Educatio Sec. Bro. Armin Luistro announced.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Youth Commission (NYC) launched yesterday a desk to address students’ complaints. High school and college students, as well as those taking up technical and vocational courses, may file their complaints with the Students’ Rights And Welfare Desk, through the website www.strawdesk.com.

To save youths from human traffickers and illegal recruiters, an international group set up a youth migrant center with the help of the local government in Agusan del Sur in southern Philippines. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the local government launched the One-Stop Resource Center (OSRC), a youth employment and migrant center last…

Young women in the Philippines who have taken up smoking is increasing at an alarming rate, a recent study of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance showed. The study, which was conducted in 2009 and released on Wednesday, revealed that affordable cigarettes contribute to the increasing number of female smokers in the country.

MORE than six million young Filipinos are out of school because of the high cost of education, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).

MANILA, Philippines — Last Monday, Oct. 31, the world’s population reached a stunning seven billion, and the latest addition to the burgeoning number of humanity came from the Philippines.

THE BEST is an acronym of a program that was just recently organized and hosted by the Baguio City National High School which means Basic Entrepreneurial Skills Training Program. This project is one of the components of the Reach out Community Development: Care and Serve (Recode Case) Project, the flagship program of the Chamber of…

Last Tuesday, I was a speaker at a forum for high school and grade school students of my alma mater, La Salle Greenhills. It was a good homecoming for me, seeing how much the school has changed — and improved — since I spent my high school days there from 1984 to 1988. There were…

FORMER President Gloria Arroyo’s program to hire out-of-school-youth may have had a noble intention but its implementation was riddled with irregularities that even the Commission on Audit (COA) cannot say if the beneficiaries received the salary promised them.

Never in our country’s history are the words of our national hero Jose P. Rizal that, the “youth is the hope of our fatherland”, ringing as true as they are than during these times when we continue to be mired in divisiveness over our many problems. Indeed we still have in our midst many young…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Audit (COA) has found various irregularities in the implementation of the Out of School Youth Serving Towards Economic Recovery (OYSTER) program of the previous administration.

The Department of Labor and Employment will implement a seven-point strategy to help young people make the transition from education to work.