Some 6,000 Filipinos have found new jobs from March to the middle of April this year under the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP) of the government, according to the National Anti-Poverty Commission.

It is said that the Philippines’ best resource is human resource. Each year, more than one million Filipinos are deployed abroad. Based on the 2007 Overseas Employment Statistics of the POEA, the Top Ten (10) Deployment Destinations of OFWs are Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Qatar, Singapore, Taiwan, Kuwait, Italy, Brunei and Korea. [...]

The economic crisis has cost over 121,000 Filipino workers their jobs, pay cuts or reduced work loads, a government official said on Sunday.

A Philippine recruitment agency is on the lookout for 1,500 workers to fill up positions in Metro Manila hotels until April 15, 2009.

With the global economic crisis now hitting the US private health sector hard, a militant think tank pushed for permanent jobs at home for health care workers.

Local job losses are outpacing the number of laid-off overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)—and causing greater worry for the government—the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said Friday.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has reported that there are 200,000 job openings at government sector especially at the Department of Public Works and Highways which is willing to hire half a million workers for its on-going projects.

Their desire to be with their families while earning good income at the same time, top their choices, when they could have otherwise earned better salaries abroad or somewhere else. For their choice to remain in the country, they could have joined the unemployed segment.

Malacanang has set the stage for the temporary employment of 180,000 Filipinos from the middle and middle-low income classes and the poorest of the poor as part of the government`s strategy to cushion the impact of the deepening global financial turmoil.

At least 39,000 Filipinos have lost their jobs since October, as factories and companies lay off workers amid the deepening global financial crisis, an official said Monday.