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READ: ABS-CBN statement on layoff of workers

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 15 06:53 PM

With the non-renewal of its congressional franchise, ABS-CBN is now forced to cease the operations of some of its businesses and implement a retrenchment program covering ABS-CBN and its subsidiaries effective end of business day on 31 August 2020. Read more »

De Lima wants probe on BPO workers placed on 'floating status' during COVID-19 crisis

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 14 12:01 PM

Detained Sen. Leila de Lima has filed a resolution urging the Senate to probe the status of business process outsourcing (BPO) employees who were allegedly placed on "floating status" during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis.   Read more »

Pandemic accelerates demands for a more skilled workforce

Steve Lohr, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 14 08:15 AM

Economists, business leaders and labor experts have warned for years that a coming wave of automation and digital technology would upend the workforce, destroying some jobs while altering how and where work is done for nearly everyone. In the past four months, the coronavirus pandemic has transformed some of those predictions into reality.  Read more »

Job-hunters, listen: Here are the skills and qualities employers are looking for in this COVID era

ANCX
Updated as of Jul 13 06:19 PM

The pandemic has turned the working landscape even more cutthroat. How will you survive? BY JACS T. SAMPAYAN  Read more »

Angara, some senators feel for ABS-CBN employees potentially losing jobs

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 10 08:10 PM

Sen. Sonny Angara believes that ABS-CBN losing its franchise bid, which coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, will have broader consequences on the economy.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 09, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 10 12:51 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Dela Rosa to ABS-CBN workers who could lose jobs: 'Hanap ng ibang trabaho'

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 09 03:19 PM

Thousands of employees of ABS-CBN should just "find other jobs" if the broadcast giant fails to secure a franchise from Congress, Sen. Ronald dela Rosa said Thursday.  Read more »

Lawmakers urged to save jobs

Fernando Sepe, Jr., ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 09 01:38 PM

Press freedom and workers' rights advocates join ABS-CBN employees during a solidarity caravan and protest to call for the renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise outside the House of Representatives on Thursday.  Read more »

UK newspaper publisher to cut 550 jobs on virus fallout

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 07 05:11 PM

Reach, publisher of UK newspapers Daily Mirror and Daily Express, plans to axe about 550 jobs as the coronavirus forces readers online and slashes advertising revenues, it said Tuesday.   Read more »

Pilots, once in short supply, now losing jobs

Niraj Chokshi, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 07 08:57 AM

While air travel has recovered somewhat, it is still only about one-fourth of what it was last year, according to airport security data. Most experts say the recovery will be slow and uneven because of a patchwork of travel bans and the unpredictable nature of the pandemic.  Read more »

Evangelical churches urge Duterte to 'support' ABS-CBN franchise renewal

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 06 02:42 PM

Evangelical churches on Monday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to "support" the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN Corp as it called for support and prayer for thousands of Filipinos who may lose their jobs.   Read more »

Defensor addresses criticism on ABS-CBN franchise hearing

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 07 09:46 AM

One of the lawmaker leading the deliberations at the House of Representatives for ABS-CBN's fresh franchise bid addressed on Friday criticisms raised against the conduct of hearings, considered among the longest conducted by the chamber's committee.  Read more »

US job growth roars back, but COVID-19 resurgence threatens recovery

Reuters
Posted at Jul 03 09:30 AM

The U.S. economy created jobs at a record clip in June as more restaurants and bars reopened, but 31.5 million Americans were collecting unemployment checks in the middle of the month, and a resurgence in COVID-19 cases suggested the labor market could suffer a setback in July. Read more »

DOLE says ABS-CBN 'misrepresenting' position on company's labor practices

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 01 07:12 PM

(Editor's note: This Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) statement on ABS-CBN was posted on its website on July 1, 2020. ABS-CBN is republishing it in full.) Read more »

BPO, 'Build Build Build' to spur Philippine economic recovery says Bello

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 01 02:19 PM

The Philippines is hoping to spur economic recovery with jobs in construction and the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, the country's labor chief said Wednesday as the coronavirus pandemic threatens with more job losses.   Read more »

Microsoft says to teach 25 million people digital work skills

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 01 08:11 AM

Microsoft on Tuesday launched an effort to teach 25 million people around the world digital-age work skills free of charge by the end of the year.   Read more »

ABS-CBN eyes regularizing more employees

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 30 10:20 PM

"All of this is really about providing the best kind of employment for the workers of ABS-CBN... we can only do it if we are allowed to operate," said ABS-CBN President and CEO Carlo Katigbak on Tuesday. Read more »

Specter of job loss during pandemic haunts 11,000 ABS-CBN employees

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 30 06:25 PM

A congresswoman on Tuesday called on her colleagues to consider the thousands of jobs to be lost, which would add to the pandemic-driven unemployment crisis, should they reject ABS-CBN's application for a new broadcast franchise. Read more »

ABS-CBN group created over 24,000 jobs in 2019: executive

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 30 05:47 PM

Mark Nepomuceno, former head of ABS-CBN corporate services group, said based on two Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) filings for the year 2019, ABS-CBN group of companies engaged and paid for the services of 24,275 individuals.   Read more »

'Uniqueness of the industry': Why ABS-CBN has program-based employees

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 30 01:10 AM

Programs aired by the network stay on air depending on how the audience receives them, which explains why ABS-CBN Corp. has program-based employees, an official of the company told congressmen hearing the broadcast network's application for a new broadcast franchise on Monday. Read more »