THE Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said that it may require less refresher coursework from professionals as the agency makes adjustments to implement the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Law.

A MEASURE exempting graduates and out-of-school youth from fees charged for official documents was ratified by both chambers of Congress on Wednesday.

DETROIT -- General Motors Co on Wednesday outlined an incentive plan for the head of its self-driving car unit that points the way toward a possible initial public offering for the business.

APPLE INC said on Tuesday that retail chief Angela Ahrendts will leave the company in April after five years on the job, the third departure of a retail head brought in from outside the company.

Usually, we hire our workers through manpower agencies that give us employees who are supposed to be screened, trained and qualified prior to deployment. However, there have been instances in which were sent people with falsified clearances. We ended up blacklisting some manpower agencies. Do we need to conduct another round of background investigations to ensure that we get the right people? (itals end) -- Vietnam Rose.

PHILIPPINE Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) Administrator Bernard P. Olalia said qualified nurse applicants to Germany will be entitled to free work visas, German language lessons and other perks under the agency’s partnership with the German government.

MORE FILIPINOS are using professional coaching services to improve their working performance and personal effectiveness, a consulting firm and a research firm said, citing the results of a joint study.

SANTIAGO -- Global miner Anglo American laid off 180 workers at its flagship Los Bronces mine in central Chile, part of a plan to boost productivity at the deposit that has raised the ire of some of its unionized workers.

HOUSTON -- The United Steelworkers (USW) union on Wednesday rejected the first offer from Shell Oil Co. in talks for a new national agreement covering 30,000 U.S. refinery, chemical plant and pipeline workers, according to three sources familiar with the negotiations.

We are planning to conduct a job evaluation program, but we can’t afford an external consultant to help us. Our CEO suggests that the project be done by our human resource department. The trouble is that we have more than 130 jobs in the organization and revising them all would take up a lot of HR’s time. My question is: Whose job is it to write and revise the job description -- the HR manager or the line managers who are expected to know what’s best for their respective departments? -- Blue Wave.

EMPLOYMENT in the mining and quarrying sector bounced back slightly in 2018 to 206,000 but remains below its 2015 levels, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said.

HALFWAY into President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s administration, there have been notable measures in behalf of labor that have been signed into law. Perhaps in no other administration have there been such significant developments for the benefit of the work force.