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PEZA won't meet 11% export growth target

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | September 30, 2011 - 12:00am

The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said it will be difficult for them to meet their yearend target of 11-percent growth in exports as the sale of electronics in the international market remains weak.

Business

Export sector may cut target in half

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | September 26, 2011 - 12:00am

The local export industry is looking at reducing its 2011 export target in half after posting a dismal five-percent decline for the first semester.

Business

Domingo downplays effects of rising peso on export sector

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | August 10, 2011 - 12:00am

Exporters should not worry so much that the peso is getting stronger against the dollar because since almost all other currencies have appreciated, the Philippines did not lose its competitiveness in the US...

Business

Employers buck P75 wage hike

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | March 3, 2010 - 12:00am

The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) yesterday said a P75 across-the-board wage increase in Metro Manila will hamper the job creation process and will only help a small fraction of the populati...

Headlines

Workers to get bonus aside from 13th-month pay - ECOP

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | November 23, 2009 - 12:00am

Employees will be receiving their bonus on top of their 13th month pay this year as local firms report full recovery from the global financial crisis, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) said.

Business

RP to lose $1 B in exports

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | November 18, 2008 - 12:00am

Filipino exporters warned that the country would lose an estimated $1 billion in export revenues next year after Japan, the country’s second largest trading partner, entered into a recession.

Headlines

Wage hike to trigger mass layoffs — ECOP

By Mayen Jaymalin | December 30, 2006 - 12:00am

Employers warned yesterday of mass layoffs nationwide in 2007 if the P125 across-the-board legislated wage hike is implemented. Sergio Ortiz Luis. Jr., new president of the Employers Confederation of the...

Headlines

SSS members ipit !

February 6, 2004 - 12:00am

Nagbabala ang mga malalaking negosyante at mga bangko na malaki ang magiging pagkalugi ng mga miyembro ng Social Security System o SSS kung patuloy ang gagawing panggugulo sa ahensiya. Sa ginawang pagharap ng mga...

Bansa

Government to ask int’l arbitration court to dismiss SGS petition

By Des Ferriols | August 2, 2002 - 12:00am

The Philippine government has initiated moves to ask the international arbitration court to dismiss the petition for arbitration filed by Societe Generale Surveillance (SGS), saying that the government and the company...

Business