Workplace injuries fall in 2015 — PSA
By Ranier Olson R. Reusora,
Researcher
REPORTED CASES of occupational injury declined around 13.7% in 2015 compared with the previous survey covering 2013, the Philippine Statistics...
Ryanair nears deal with Italian pilots
ROME — Ryanair and its Italian pilots union ANPAC said on Wednesday they were close to a deal on formal recognition and working conditions...
Best Buy plans to shut 250 small US mobile phone stores
BEST BUY Co., Inc. the no. 1 US consumer electronics retailer, on Wednesday said it will shut 250 small mobile phone stores in US...
Measuring the return on investment of training programs
By Rey Elbo
Our training department organizes many important programs for our employees. But it appears to me that their main objective is to cover only as...
Mexico’s pro-business candidate wants to double minimum wage
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Ricardo Anaya is pledging to more than double Mexico’s minimum wage as he looks to extend a rally in his support that’s...
Crime hits postwar low in Japan as joblessness declines
CRIME in Japan is dropping amid the longest economic expansion in almost three decades, making one of the safest nations even safer.
The number of...
UK wages pick up as fewer Eastern EU workers fill jobs
UK pay is picking up after employment among citizens of the eastern countries that joined the European Union more than a decade ago fell...
Dannon defector to Chobani ignites yogurt trade secrets battle
THE WAR between established yogurt makers and upstarts intensified when Dannon Co. sued a former senior vice-president for allegedly taking confidential information and trade...
Dealing with a credit-grabbing boss
By Rey Elbo
My boss gives me impossible work assignments and when I achieve them, he simply thanks me as if my achievements were very easy to...
APEC members failing to maximize potential of labor information portal
MEMBER-ECONOMIES of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc are not maximizing an available labor market information system to help address unemployment and job-skills mismatches,...
Amazon.com to add 2,000 jobs in France
AMAZON.COM, Inc. will create 2,000 permanent jobs this year with an eye to the strengthening French economy.
Amazon, which already added 1,500 jobs in France...
When to bypass an ineffective and inefficient boss
By Rey Elbo
I have a boss who is known in the whole organization as a “teka-teka” manager who takes so much time in making decisions, even for...