by Joel dela Torre
from People’s Journal

MARKING the United Nations Day for Women and International Peace today, the Commission on Human Rights called on government to improve protection and programs for the rights… Read the rest

FILIPINO workers posted the lowest productivity in the past 10 years in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, a region where labor productivity has been “stagnant,” a UN agency report says.

Workers in Southeast Asia have… Read the rest

LABOR productivity in the Philippines stands at the low end of Southeast Asian countries, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO) said.

In a report titled, “Key Indicators of the Labor Market,” the ILO… Read the rest

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines needs to improve on labor productivity to attain a globally competitive work force, according to the National Wages and Productivity Commission.

The NWPC, an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE),… Read the rest

THE Philippines ranked 49th among the 61 countries rated in a survey on global competitiveness in 2005, maintaining the poor position it had in 2004.

The country rated weakly in the areas of education, good… Read the rest

WHY do blue-collar workers tend to have heavy orientation on Total Quality Management (TQM) than their white-collar counterparts?

Is it because many people relate the popularity of TQM with the manufacturing sector than… Read the rest

Corporate monopoly caused employment reduction and helped increase the numbers of Filipino migrant workers, according to an economist at the Ateneo de Manila University.

?Corporate monopoly tends to be less efficient. They don?t… Read the rest