S$3.5m to help firms create hiring opportunities for disabled

Source: CNA

SINGAPORE: The government will provide up to S$3.5 million to the Open Door Fund (ODF) over the next three years to help companies create employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.

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More than 115,000 jobs created last year

Source: CNA

SINGAPORE: There were a total of 115,900 jobs created in Singapore for the whole of last year. This was a slight adjustment to an earlier estimate of 112,500.

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Budget 2011: Salary threshold rise for work pass holders

Source: CNA

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Manpower is raising the salary thresholds of two groups of workers -- local full-time and skilled foreign workers -- from July this year.

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Budget 2011: Low-wage workers to get more training

Source: CNA

SINGAPORE: Helping low-wage workers do better and earn more is a multi-faceted challenge, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Manpower Hawazi Daipi.

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Signs You're About to Get Fired

Source: USNEWS

Too many times after someone gets fired, they say, "I should have seen it coming." But most of us don't see the signs because we don't want to see them. They're there, sometimes right in front of us.

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Clerk graduates to CEO at 36

Source: PDI

It pays to be ready when opportunity knocks. And Anelyn Sumañga was more than able when it did.

At 36, Miss Annie, as she is fondly called by her subordinates, is already president of Misibis Land Inc., a housing and real estate firm in Albay. She is also officer in charge and general manager of four other companies owned by the Sunwest Group, including Legazpi’s landmark mall, the Embarcadero.

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Cebu Pacific to hire 75 pilots, 200 cabin crew for 5-year expansion

Source: PDI

MANILA, Philippines – Gokongwei-led budget carrier Cebu Pacific is hiring hundreds of new employees to support its expansion plans for the next five years.

In a statement, the company said it would “offer high-paying jobs to key positions as it moves forward with its expansion plans in Asia.” This would be the company’s biggest recruitment campaign to date.

The airline said it would hire 75 new pilots to man its fleet of Airbus A320 jets and ATR turbo-prop aircraft. More than 200 new cabin crew, 10 mechanics and engineers and 20 ground support crew in the various fields of cargo, airport services, accounting, information systems and human resources are also being hired.

“It is an exciting and fun time for the airline as it proceeds with its expansion plans and takes delivery of 20 more brand-new Airbus A320 aircraft from 2011-2014. We look forward to welcoming more people into the Cebu Pacific family,” said Cebu Pacific vice president for marketing and distribution Candice Iyog.

The airline has received four brand-new Airbus A320 aircraft from October 2010 to January 2011.

“Cebu Pacific has created more than 4,000 jobs with an annual payroll of over P2 billion. It has created 500 jobs in the last year alone. We are proud to provide high-paying jobs to Filipinos and keep them close to their families,” she added.

Iyog said interested and qualified applicants could attend the airline’s recruitment event at Hotel Intercontinental Manila on Feb. 11-12, 2011.

One-day processing recruitment campaigns will also be held at PATTS College of Aeronautics on Feb. 9 and the Philippine State College of Aeronautics on March 2, with others to follow, according to Iyog.

“Those applying for flight crew [pilot] positions must embody Cebu Pacific’s culture of fun, should have a college degree and basic computer literacy and a minimum of 500 hours on civil registered transport aircraft certificated on multi-crew operations,” the company said.

Meanwhile, qualifications for being flight attendants include a “dynamic personality,” a minimum height of 5’ 3,” weight that is proportional to height, clear complexion and good eyesight, among others.

The first low-cost carrier in Asia, Cebu Pacific currently operates more than 260 flights daily to 16 international cities and 33 domestic destinations. It flew almost 10.5 million passengers in 2010, exceeding targets with a 19-percent increase over the 2009 figures. Its international passengers also grew 38 percent in 2010.

This comes amid the labor woes of Philippine Airlines (PAL), Cebu Pacific’s main rival.

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Equal employment opportunities for women

Senate tackles proposals on equal employment opportunities for women

Source: PDI

MANILA, Philippines—The Senate has started deliberations on proposals that seek to give equal employment opportunities regardless of gender. This includes allowing night work for women employees.

Senator Jinggoy Estrada, chair of the Senate committee on labor, said that despite guarantees expressed by the Constitution, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the recently enacted Magna Carta for Women, cases of discrimination occur every day in factories, corporate towers and government offices.

“With all these legal assurance on equal employment, discrimination still persists in today’s supposed modern times,” Estrada said in a statement on Thursday.

At Wednesday’s joint hearing by the Senate committees on labor; youth, women and family relations; and civil service and government reorganization, Estrada said a study conducted by the Bureau of Women and Young Workers and the National Statistics Office showed that “women employees generally earn less than their male counterparts, they are predominantly low-skilled jobs and only a few of them advance to the top of the organizational hierarchy.”

He cited a study by the Department of Labor and Employment – Institute for Labor Studies (DOLE-IS) that showed a P1,000 monthly salary gap between male and female workers.

The same research, he said, showed that females tend to be given limited access to training, promotions and other fringe benefits, compared to males.

The hearing focused on expanding acts of discrimination on account of sex and identifying particular work-related instances that can be classified as discriminatory, and therefore illegal.

The committee also tackled Senate Bill 859, authored by Estrada himself, which allows night wok for women employees when increasing demand for work provides equal opportunities.

“There has been a demand for exemption from the night work prohibition for women employees, especially in the call-center industry,” Estrada said in his explanatory note in the bill.

The Labor Code, the senator added, generally prohibits night work for women for industrial and commercial undertakings.

“In granting exemption, the Department of Labor and Employment considered the changes brought about by the increasing demand for globalization, liberalization, advanced information and communication technology and communication technology and the Constitutional mandate for the equal rights to employment opportunities and the right against employment discrimination... to increase women participation in work and enhance employment generation,” Estrada said.

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