Labor's wage war.
INTRODUCTION Almost every growing sector in the bottom half of our economy--health care, child care, retail, building services, construction, and hospitality--is plagued by penurious employers who drag down working conditions for everyone. Common schemes emerge in jobs with sweatshop conditions: employers hide behind subcontractors, call their workers...

US job growth strong; new rate hike seen certain.
Byline: TIM AHMANN WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (Reuters) US job growth picked up last month as employers added 207,000 workers to their payrolls, a healthy gain that led Wall Street to increase bets on more rate rises from the Federal Reserve. The Labor Departments July employment...

United Nations International Labor Organization: Taking on new forms.
A RECENT report of the United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO), titled "Equality at Work: Tackling the Challenges" describes the global picture of the struggle to overcome discrimination in the workplace as a mixture of ups and downs. "People are not only being discriminated against based on their gender,...

Payroll answer book, 7th ed.
0735549990 Payroll answer book, 7th ed. Mitchell-George, Joanne. Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2005 $189.00 Hardcover KF6436 This reference gives practitioners guidance on how to comply with the laws and regulations governing payroll. Using a...

DoLE seeks 'mentors' for returning OFWs.
Byline: RAUL V. GONZALES Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas urged leaders of the private sector to link up with the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) as mentors of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who would like to open a small...

Number of strikes falls 54% in first quarter.
The number of labor strikes in the first quarter of the year has dropped significantly by 54 percent to six compared to 13 strikes in the same period last year. Statistics released by the labor department showed that the number of striking workers has also declined to...

Task force created to probe Luisita case.
Byline: JOEL C. ATENCIO The Department of Land Reform (DLR) has created a special task force that will investigate the real story behind the strike of farm workers of Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac. "We have formed a special task force on the Hacienda Luisita case....

Living wage requirements in public contracts. (State and Municipal Management).
A local government procurement director lays out the challenge to public managers and provides a case study in the Multnomah County Schools of Portland, OR. From Little Rock to San Francisco, local agencies throughout the United States are adopting living wage policies. These statutes mandate pre-established wage...

NEWS IN BRIEF; P/$ rate closed at P56.295.
The peso closed at P56.295 to the US dollar last Tuesday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines. The weighted average rate stands at P56.346. The financial markets are closed for the Easter holidays. Trading resumes on Monday next week. Freeport employment...

Villar wants list of Filipinos in Iraq.
Government should draw up a registry of Filipinos working in Iraq so it would not end up being clueless again if one of them is snatched such as the Filipino driver who was taken but later freed on Monday by anti-US rebels in the strife-torn country. Sen....