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Tag: Employment

UN urges better protection for digital platform workers

The United Nations called Tuesday for urgent international regulations ensuring fair conditions for workers paid via digital platforms such as food delivery apps --...

Soaring COVID infections likely delayed hiring

Washington"•Hiring in the United States likely stalled at the end of 2020, economists say, as coronavirus infections soared and Washington lawmakers squabbled over a...

Rising jobless numbers

"Opportunities are narrowing." We may not have to wait for the release of the next official data of the Philippine Statistics Office on the employment...

Marks & Spencer says 950 jobs under threat

London, United Kingdom"•British clothing-to-food retailer Marks & Spencer could ax up to 950 management and administrative jobs to counter slumping profits and sales in...

Australia launches $1.4 bn pandemic retraining plan

Australia announced Thursday Aus$2billion ($1.4 billion) to retrain workers impacted by the coronavirus fallout, as unemployment rose to its highest level in more than...

US April employment to see largest collapse in history

With shops and factories closed nationwide due to COVID-19, nearly all of the jobs created in the US economy in the last decade have...

‘2M jobless workers welcome New Year’

At least two million workers lost their jobs at the start of the new year. House Deputy Minority Leader and Probinsyano Ako party-list Rep. Jose...

PEZA investments dropped 13% to P109b in 11 months

The Philippine Economic Zone Authority said Tuesday investments in all economic zones fell 12.6 percent in the first 11 months to P109.19 billion from...

Jobless rate rise seasonal–Palace

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A win-win solution

"Deregulating the minimum wage will end contractualization."     Ending the practice of labor-only contracting can never be resolved by legislation. For Congress to resort to this...

No end in sight

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‘Prioritize Filipino workers’ – Villanueva

Senator Joel Villanueva on Saturday urged Filipino traders and employers to give fellow countrymen preferential treatment over foreign workers amid the reported influx of...

9.8 million Pinoys jobless–SWS

Over a million more Filipino adults became jobless in September, the latest Social Weather Stations’ survey revealed even as the Palace assured the public...

PLDT disputes Labor’s directive

PLDT Inc. is questioning the Labor Department’s directive to regularize more than 7,300 employees of the company’s service contractors.  PLDT in a manifestation sought to...
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