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Bureau targets 100,000 jobs under special visa programme

By MBJ on May 18, 2009

The chief the Bureau of Immigration disclosed they are targeting at least 100,000 new jobs for Filipinos this year through their special visa for employment generation (SVEG) programme.

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Power rate hike means more job losses, labor group warns

By MBJ on April 21, 2009

More Filipino workers will lose their jobs due to higher cost of electricity in the face of the worsening global economic and financial turmoil, the head of the country’s largest labor group warned.

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10,000 ‘green collar’ jobs generated in Northern Luzon

By MBJ on April 5, 2009

About 10,000 “green collar” and other jobs have been generated in Cagayan Valley in the Northern Luzon highlands as part of the Arroyo administration’s emergency employment program to help jobless Filipinos and workers retrenched from their jobs.

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Military offers 2,000 civilian jobs to fired Filipino workers

By MBJ on April 4, 2009

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is accepting applications for more than 2,000 civilian jobs which have been made available to Filipinos retrenched from their work due to the deepening global financial and economic crunch.

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Luzon lawmaker files bill for unemployment insurance

By MBJ on March 27, 2009

A Luzon congressman filed a bill in the House of Representatives, which seeks to provide compensation of up to six months for workers rendered jobless by the worsening global economic and financial meltdown.

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Budget for emergency employment program hiked, Arroyo aide reveals

By MBJ on March 10, 2009

The government increased by the equivalent of $20 million the funding for the emergency employment program launched to provide more jobs to poor Filipinos and those retrenched from their jobs due to the global financial and economic meltdown, a senior Arroyo Cabinet official disclosed.

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Manila launches job fairs for retrenched workers

By MBJ on March 2, 2009

The Arroyo administration, spearheaded by two of the government’s biggest departments, launched job fairs which aim to hire especially workers who have been retrenched from their jobs due to the global economic and financial turmoil.

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Arroyo orders govt hiring of 180,000 contractual workers

By MBJ on February 21, 2009

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered all government departments and agencies to hire 180,000 contractual workers to help cushion the impact of the worsening global financial and economic meltdown, according to a senior Malacanang official.

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Layoff of Filipino workers may hit 200,000 in 2009, official bares

By MBJ on February 15, 2009

As the global financial and economic turmoil deepens, as many as 200,000 Filipino workers throughout the country may be retrenched from their jobs, a ranking government official warned.

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Palace mulls deferment of plan to dismiss govt workers – Arroyo aide

By MBJ on February 2, 2009

The Arroyo administration is seriously reconsidering its announced plan for the mass dismissal of government workers due to the deepening global economic and financial crisis, a senior Cabinet member disclosed.

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Arroyo aide: Govt can’t stop mass retrenchments

By MBJ on February 1, 2009

A senior member of the Arroyo Cabinet said the government cannot and will not stop the retrenchment of workers as suggested by militant labor groups as the global economic and financial turmoil deepens.

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