Our labor force is changing: don't get left behind.
In a perfect world, all mushroom farmers would have a human resources department so that we could concentrate on the bigger picture of operating our businesses. For some of the larger farms, having such a department is cost effective and necessary. However, for the rest of us, we have...

House okays 3 measures to benefit labor force.
Byline: BEN R. ROSARIO The House of Representatives kept on track its vow to speed up the approval of economic and social-reform measures before the sine die adjournment next week when it approved on Wednesday night three bills benefiting the country's labor force and major freeports. ...

La population de Roubaix; Industrialisation, demographie et societe 1750-1880.
La population de Roubaix; Industrialisation, demographie et societe 1750-1880. By Chantal Petillon (Villeneuve d'Ascq: Septentrion, 2006. pp.400). Successful labor force development and failed class formation are the principal themes of Chantal Petillon' s ambitious study of Roubaix between 1750 and 1880. Relying on demographic analysis, Petillon seeks...

Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation.
Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. By Moon-Ho Jung (Balitmore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x plus 275 pp.). Recently, several historians have begun to complicate where and when Asian American history begins. Most standard histories begin with the California gold...

Labor organizing by executive order: Governor Spitzer and the unionization of home-based child day-care providers.
I. INTRODUCTION On May 8, 2007, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer issued Executive Order No. 12, opening the door for the unionization of 60,000 persons paid directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by state funds, to provide home-based day-care for the children of working parents....

RP, Canada sign labor accord; Needed: 30,000 skilled workers a year RP, Canada sign labor agreement; British Columbia needs 30,000 workers a year.
Byline: CHARISSA M. LUCI The Canadian government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Philippines to address the shortage of skilled workers in the Canadian province of British Columbia, the Canadian Ministry of Economic Development said yesterday. Canadian Economic Development Minister Colin Hansen and...

ECoP urges gov't safety nets for labor.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Employers yesterday urged the government to provide safety nets to the marginalized to cushion the impact of higher prices of basic commodities instead of pushing for another round of wage adjustment, which will only aggravate the current economic debacle. Employers Confederation of...

Roadmap to Bangalore?; globalization, the EU's Libson process and the structures of global inequality.
9781600214783 Roadmap to Bangalore?; globalization, the EU's Libson process and the structures of global inequality. Ed. by Almas Heshmati and Arno Tausch. Nova Science Publishers 2007 302 pages $79.00 Hardcover HC240 ...

Wage boards urged to decide pay hike.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Employers are not opposed to wage hike as long as this is done through the process of the regional tripartite wages and productivity boards (RTWPBs) and not through congressional legislations. Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECoP) President Sergio Ortiz-Luis said that employers...

National Migrants Sunday.
THE Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) leads the unusual celebration of National Migrants Sunday. Held every last Sunday of the month of February, this yearly celebration calls attention to the country's more than 8...