A salute to the nation's labor force.
Dispersed across economic sectors, from agriculture to manufacturing and a wide range of services, the millions who constitute the Philippine labor force provide the most important variable in sustaining the nation's progress. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has gone around the nation to converse with workers, learning about...

BOOK PICKS.
Byline: The Register-Guard Counting on Grace By Elizabeth Winthrop 2006 Ages 10 to 15 Statistics vary, but in the early 1900s children under 15 made up between 25 percent and 40 percent of the labor force in the textile...

Protestantism, labor force participation, and employment across countries.
I Introduction As MAX WEBER ([1904-1905] 2002) argued in his famous essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Protestantism--particularly its Calvinist branch--cultivated an intense devotion to one's work or "calling," in order to assure oneself that one was predestined for salvation. According to...

Manpower Inc. Calls for Greater Recognition of the Role of Women in the Post- Crisis Labor Market.
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Manpower Inc., a world leader in the employment services industry and strategic partner of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, released a paper today titled, "The Underworked Solution: Women and the Talent Crunch." The paper calls for the increased...

Skyytek, a Leading On-Demand ERP/CRM Consulting Company Announces SkyyForce -- to Provide Low Cost Staff Augmentation Labor to Customers Who Have Adopted On-Demand Solutions for Products Such as Intacct, Salesforce.com and NetSuite.
MIAMI, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyytek Worldwide, a leading consulting company that specializes in on-demand ERP/CRM solutions such as Intacct, Salesforce.com and NetSuite has introduced a new initiative (SkyyForce) to help small to mid-sized companies in a tough economy. Traditionally customers look at on-demand/SaaS solutions to save...

ILO: Asia's unemployment rate climbing.
Asia is likely to have 7.2 million more jobless people in 2009 than last year due to fallout from the global economic crisis, raising the region's jobless rate to 5.1 percent, the International Labor Organization said Wednesday. It forecast the ranks of unemployed workers would likely balloon...

Calabarzon EPZs most affected by layoffs - DoLE.
Workers employed in export processing zones (EPZs) in the Calabarzon region appear to be the most affected by the global financial crisis with the displacement of 7,251 Filipinos and the reduced working hours for 13,957 more. According to the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) yesterday, the...

LUZON NEWSBITS.
DoLE asked to probe Laguna retrenchment The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has urged the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to look into reports that some 35,000 workers at a special economic zone in Laguna have been adversely affected by the collapse of the...

RP's unemployment problem may worsen this year, says Ibon.
The Philippines' record high unemployment is expected to even worsen this year, the research group Ibon Foundation said yesterday. Estimates made by Ibon put the number of unemployed and underemployed Filipinos at 10.7 million in 2008. It said it made the computation using the National Statistics Office...

Prefab Housing Defies Real Estate Downturn.
PARK CITY, Utah, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Although the U.S. Housing Market is depressed Nationwide, modern prefab home sales are increasing at a rapid pace from coast to coast. For modern architecture fans that object to cookie-cutter homes, the prefab housing industry is a shining beacon of progress. The...