US agencies offer staff new buyouts ahead of Trump’s deadline to file resignations
MULTIPLE government agencies are turning to early retirement programs to reduce headcount as they scramble to meet President Donald Trump’s Thursday deadline for them...
Managing salary-related issues
By Rey Elbo
How do we manage a situation where employees willingly share their payslips with other workers? This has become a terrible issue, resulting in boss-worker...
Analysts raise exploitation concerns over EBET Law
by Almira Louise S. Martinez, Reporter
The Enterprise-Based Education and Training (EBET) Framework Act can help address the job-skills mismatch but could also be a...
Managerial pay falls to P1,300 per day in January
MANAGERS averaged daily pay of P1,300 in January, down from P1,356 a year earlier, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
Armed forces occupations were...
Examples of low-cost motivational strategies
By Rey Elbo
Last week, you wrote about the measurement system and general rules for motivating people without spending much money. Could you list specific examples? —...
Lufthansa Technik pandemic layoffs upheld by CA
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has upheld the validity of Lufthansa Technik Philippines’ retrenchment program in dismissing a petition filed by former employees who...
Low-cost approaches to motivating staff
By Rey Elbo
We are a small business that can’t afford high salaries and benefits. How do we motivate people to do what they can to help...
Global seafarer shortage underscores the need for more Filipino officers
by Almira Louise S. Martinez, Reporter
The Magsaysay Group of Companies said more Filipino officers in the maritime industry are needed amid the global shortage...
CA finds due process lacking in ‘unjust’ dismissal
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has ruled in favor of a former employee of a logistics company, declaring her dismissal illegal and reversing a...
US aviation industry calls for emergency funding for air traffic technology, staffing
WASHINGTON — The US aviation industry called for “robust emergency funding” from Congress for air traffic control technology and staffing after a series of...
Making HR a profit center
By Rey Elbo
THE first thing to do is to define and measure every important aspect of HR. If you can’t count the numbers, then it follows that you can’t manage HR. It’s a derivative of the famous line of Peter Drucker (1909-2005) who said: “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” But first, you’ll have to focus on what’s important to your top management and the whole organization.
Tech-savvy Gen Z facing office adaptation struggles
GENERATION Z — the cohort born between 1997 to 2012 — must harness its digital fluency to stay competitive in the job market as artificial intelligence (AI) and automation become more critical in many, JobSteet by SEEK said.
