THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said it suspended processing of applications for all new hires to Sudan, including those for seafarers taking ship in Sudan, due to security concerns.

CARLYLE GROUP LP emulated its peers on Wednesday with plans to convert from a publicly traded partnership into a corporation, and went one step further by announcing it will become the first U.S. private equity firm to hold shareholder votes.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Cisco Systems Inc has agreed to settle a whistleblower’s claim that it improperly sold video surveillance software with known vulnerabilities to US federal and state governments, marking the first payout on a False Claims Act case brought over failure to meet cybersecurity standards.

DUBLIN -- Ryanair has 500 more pilots and 400 more cabin crew than needed, and job losses will be announced in the coming weeks, Chief Executive Michael O’Leary told staff in a video message.

Soon after we selected some new employees put them through orientation, we unexpectedly received their resignations, while some of them were no-shows on the second day. It’s very disappointing to realize that the time, money and effort that we put into the recruitment process went to waste. What’s wrong with our hiring procedure? -- Without a Clue.

DAYS before the Security of Tenure (SoT) Bill is due to lapse into law, labor organizations pushed back on the business sector’s claims that the measure will raise their operating costs, saying that the current “end-of-contract” or “endo” schemes that deny workers a pathway to permanent employment cost more.

SINGAPORE -- Caught between a Sino-US trade war, political concerns over Chinese telecoms firm Huawei and slowing consumer demand, chipmakers in Singapore have started slowing production and laying off hundreds of jobs, firms told Reuters.

JOB search site Jobstreet.com (Jobstreet) has signed an agreement with the Labor department to survey the international market for Filipino workers.

DUBLIN -- Ryanair cabin crew in Portugal are set to strike for five days in August in a dispute over pay and conditions, the SNPVAC union said on Wednesday.

YOKOHAMA -- Japanese car maker Nissan Motor Co said it is axing 12,500 jobs and warned a quick turnaround in its performance was not imminent after reporting its quarterly profit was nearly wiped out.

We don’t have a strict management policy against absenteeism and tardiness. We use the biometric timekeeping device for security reasons and not for attendance record-keeping. We were told by management that we are responsible adult human beings and therefore should be treated as such. In fact, our work schedule incorporates flextime where everyone must be physically present during the core period from nine in the morning up to four in the afternoon and log in eight hours of work every day Monday to Friday. Despite this ideal set-up, many employees are stressed out due to heavy workloads and stiff deadlines that lead us, many times during the week, to bring our laptops home in order to work overtime. Is there a cure for us? -- Bewildered.

ONLINE JOB search site Jobstreet.com said that Filipinos are attracted to work for companies that offer good pay, work development opportunities, and flexible hours.