Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano yesterday threw his support to a union leader sacked by the management of banking giant Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), a month before Labor Day. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA — Former employees of national carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) trooped to the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) on Monday to assail the agency’s approval to the outsourcing program that sidelined 2,300 workers last year. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines — Call center operators in the Philippines who serve mostly U.S. clients on Wednesday shrugged off President Barack Obama’s initiative to bring outsourced jobs back home. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – US President Barack Obama proposed several tax measures aimed at encouraging American companies to bring jobs back home, a move that is expected to have an adverse impact on the Philippines’ growing outsourcing industry. Read the rest of this entry »

The corporate world is replete with management “fad-ism”—MBO, Six Sigma, benchmarking and leveraging. The underlying clinical concept may be valid. But relevance and organization ‘‘fit” is imperative for these concepts to create a better organization. Managing the change and readily responding to needed adjustment in execution, given the corporate culture, are imperative. Organizations are advised not to fall, hook-line-and-sinker, into evolving corporate fads. Outsourcing is recent addition to corporate “fad-ism.’’ Read the rest of this entry »

Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz commended the banking industry after it adopted a Voluntary Code of Good Practice, a first for the banking sector and the 23rd such code adopted by the country’s various industries under the administration of President Aquino. Read the rest of this entry »

Era of legitimate subcontracting jobs arrives in bank, says Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz

The highly profitable banking sector became the first industry in the Philippines to acknowledge and legitimize labor outsourcing, a significant development in the labor front that will affect thousands of jobs. Read the rest of this entry »

MALAYSIA-based computer whiz Arlene Teodoro packed his bags and flew home to the Philippines this year, going against the tide in an impoverished country that sends millions of workers abroad. Read the rest of this entry »

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Thursday called for sobriety and mutual respect from the contending parties following reports of a clash outside the Philippine Airlines’ Inflight Center in Pasay City on Wednesday where protesting PAL union members had set up camp. Read the rest of this entry »

Representatives from the Supreme Court on Tuesday failed to show up at a congressional hearing regarding its controversial decision to recall its final ruling on a case filed against flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL). Read the rest of this entry »