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...Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that millions of migrants were at risk of losing their jobs in the wake of the financial crisis - grim news for both individual Filipinos and their government. By law, the government isn't allowed to promote overseas employment. But the Department of Labor does arrange state-to-state labor contracts that send workers abroad and openly encourages private-sector recruitment for overseas jobs. Evidence of its success, in the form of advertisements for English courses, technical schools and recruitment centers, is plastered across buildings and telephone poles throughout Manila. "It's a global phenomenon...
...Others say the best way to help families is to dam the flood of migration by giving workers a reason to stay home. In October, officials said that nearly 10 million jobs had been created in the Philippines between 2004 and 2008. But activists and labor organizations argue that many of those were part-time or low-paying - hardly an enticement to keep Filipinos from seeking their fortunes overseas. "We want people to go abroad to work as a choice - not as something they have to do," says Cabral, head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development...
...free “Scan and Deliver” program is designed to save researchers the labor of photocopying materials and will provide faster access to the library’s extensive collections...
...added that students working in the library system will be largely responsible for the labor...
...most labor-intensive phase is about to begin, as teams of Obama aides descend on more than 100 federal departments and agencies to begin poring over their operations. Meanwhile, the new Administration is looking for more than 300 Cabinet secretaries, deputies and assistant secretaries, plus upwards of 2,500 political appointees who do not require Senate confirmation. Not that there will be any lack of candidates: in the first five days after Obama's team set up its Change.gov website, 144,000 applications poured...