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聽have a boss who is known in the whole organization as a 鈥渢eka-teka鈥 manager who takes so much time in making decisions, even for...
EO on contractualization due by March 鈥 DoLE
PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte is set to sign an executive order (EO) on contractualization by March, Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) secretary Silvestre...
PHL graduates鈥 English edge seen narrowing
THE PHILIPPINES鈥 perceived advantage in English may be narrowing after a study found that Filipino university graduates as a group score below the target...
Tesco faces equal-pay case that seeks up to $5.6 billion in claims
AS THE UK FORCES companies to disclose the gap between men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 pay, the country鈥檚 biggest private employer is confronted with a massive...
Multiple approvals in worker applications for leave
By Rey Elbo
I鈥檓 an ordinary office worker in a small family enterprise with about 400 workers. Most of the time, we are fearful of the management...
Metro Manila labor turnover stabilizes in Q3
By Christine J. S. Casta帽eda, Senior Researcher
and聽 Mark T. Amoguis, Researcher
LABOR TURNOVER in large Metro Manila enterprises declined to its slowest pace since early...
What鈥檚 the value of hiring and managing gray workers?
By Rey Elbo
Because of the difficulties in hiring and managing millennials, we鈥檙e now looking into the possibility of hiring retired people to do office jobs or...
China goes on tech-hiring binge; wages surge
CHINA鈥橲 war for technology talent is intensifying.
Tens of thousands of people are being hired to shore up cybersecurity, help censor online content, and try...
Who should personally handle employee dismissals?
By Rey Elbo
Our HR department used to take the lead in handling personally all disciplinary cases in our organization. Now that we have a new HR...